... unacceptable and unconscious wishes and urges. He defines the state of sleep to be a period of uproar and chaos during which the unconscious thoughts of the (Id) attempt to force their way into consciousness. More specifically, a dream was the disguised fulfilment of a repressed desire. It had to be disguised because the repressed desires could be sexual or aggressive urges unacceptable to the dreamer when awake. However, the major problem with Freud's theory of dream function is that interpretation of a dream function is not something that can be objectively achieved. Webb and Cartwright 1978 see dreams as a way of dealing with problems relating to work, sex and relationships that occur during working hours. Cartwright 1984 argued that whatever is symbolised in a dream are the dreams 'true meaning' and unlike Freud, he saw no reason to distinguish between dreams content and meaning. Jung and Freud had worked together at ...

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