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DISCUSSION ON FREUDIAN AND JAIN ..... : 55 children's dream because he found innocence there very overtly and although he did not negate for the possibility of direct dreams in adults. Since he believed that no adult can be innocent in the true sense because he knows to hide back his wishes. But Jainism doesn't agree completely with this. In Bhagavati Sūtra, it is said that a person of conduct, a very well restraint, meditating monk can see the true dreams. The main quality required for true dreams is innocence or purity of heart of the person. If a person is pure at thought and action and has good conduct has the tendency of getting reflection of undistorted or undisguised dream objects. Freud did not speak to that level. He paused at sophisticated behavior of adults, which results in distorted dream buildings.
Thus, the mechanism of connecting the dream symbol to its real meaning is not absolute in any of the system. There are various possibilities to connect them. Moreover, validity is uncertain because it depends on the interpreter and the system, how he interprets them.
Hence, although Freuds observation was correct from the point of view of his study of psycho analysis he found religion useless in psychological development and in mental treatment. Actually there is another way to deal with this problem and reach to point where human dignity is restored. Jain āgamas show the path to move ahead where Freud stopped. The two but most important schools i.e. philosophy and psychology are complimentary to each other and assists to find a way for renunciation and attainment of ultimate goal of human race. References: 1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, -The
German text with a Revised English Translation, Trans. by G. E.M. Anscombe, Blackwell Publishing, MA (USA), (1s
edn. 1953, 2nd 1958, 3rd edn, 2001), 4th edn. 2005, p. 7. 2. W. T. Jones, A History of Western Philosophy, Vol. 5, Second
edn. revised, 1980, p. 376. 3. Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, 1998,
p. 165.
