Dream Theories in History

The Freudian Theory (1900)

Previously, dream theorists believed that dreams were very brief. As short as
occurring during the process of waking up. Freud had the idea that dreams were a
firework that has been hours in the preparation, and then blazes up in a moment. He
agreed that dreams are very short, but he added that dreams are being prepared during
your waking day.
His Claim:
wish-fulfillment is the meaning of each and every dream

The Jungian Theory of Dreams (1963; 1974)

Based on the theory of a collective unconscious. This means everything you have
experienced or observed goes into your collective unconscious. These come in the forms of
archetypes. These are symbols that are inherited from religious practices or myths.

His Claim:

The collective unconscious contains the inherited experimental record of the human species in
the form of archetypes which best understood as highly energized patterns or concepts that
must be expressed through the personality.
Psychology Archetypes
Bibliography

Domhoff, G. W. (2000). Moving Dream Theory Beyond Freud and Jung. Paper presented to the
symposium "Beyond Freud and Jung?", Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 9/23/2000.

(http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/domhoff_2000d.html)