ABSTRACT
Dreams have a psychic structure which is unlike that of other contents of consciousness because, so far one can judge from their form and meaning, they do not show the continuity of development typical of conscious contents. Focusing the dream psychology, it opens the way to a general comparative psychology from which one may hope to gain the understanding of the development and structure of the human psyche as comparative anatomy has given us concerning the human body. The collection of additional material proceeds according to the same principle of recollection, which has also been called the method of free association. This chapter discusses the two kinds of interpretation in 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology'. The interpretation of dreams as infantile wish-fulfillments or as finalistic 'arrangements' sub serving an infantile striving for power is much too narrow and fails to do justice to the essential nature of dreams.
