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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN ...... : 51 is just a thrilling fact and generate curiosity in general as to how these dream images are perceived in sleeping condition? The Jains have not dealt with any systematic deliberation on dream work. Freud has given it under four stages and explained them very lucidly. Since Jains have no conception of unconscious mind, the theory of karma works on that place? It holds the past impression impregnated in karma, what Freud calls infantile desires is actually in Jain view of karma. Although an infant has his own world and get impressions from the outer world by which it is deeply influenced. These desires are limited but infinite such impressions are there in kārmaņa-śarīra which also comes up in dreams and forms different dream images. Hence karma saṁskāras (impressions of karma) includes both infantile desires of present birth and the deeper impressions of several previous births. Both together make strange appearance in dreams. In Jainism, appearance of dream images in dreams has no explanation of dream work. Consciousness itself creates it and perceives it through citta (psyche), which is the master of mind and manages the functioning of mind. In Jain literature psyche and mind are not synonymous words. They have been explained differently in characteristics and also in functioning. Sexuality in Wishes and Dreams The influence of organic somatic stimuli upon the formation of dreams is almost universally accepted. On the basis of the theory of somatic stimulation, dream interpretation is thus faced with special problem of tracing back the content of a dream to the organic stimuli, which caused it.21 Weygand (1893), asserts of all dream images that their primary causes are sensory stimuli and that only later do reproductive associations become attached to them. Some others are of opinion that in most dreams, somatic stimuli and psychological instigator work in cooperation.
There is one particular mental mis-adaptation which is of crucial importance in the causation of mental illnesses as well as dreams and that is what Freud called repression. In a situation of extreme
