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This paper rests upon a proposition the evidence for which has been developed elsewhere,1 but which can be stated as follows:
The so-called conscious and unconscious are dynamic fields of experiencing in two entirely different, complementary phases of reality, in each of which one may be relatively aware or unaware. Fact and symbol are the co-equal elements of these two reality phases which, themselves, are philosophically recognizable as Actuality and Meaning, respectively. Dreaming, then, is genuine subjective-objective experience of the true event world in its symbolic field, a field quite in parity with the factual field most consciously experienced.
After a brief elaboration of the foregoing, this paper will be devoted to development of the further propositions that:
A direct basic utilization of this difference in nature of the conscious and unconscious reality fields and their respective kinds of authenticity can be made in a dream-interpretative technique, correctly understood and operated as a two-way process.
Such interpretation is fundamental to all psychologic procedure as the developmental psychic assimilation and correlation of the foregoing two reality experiencing, themselves. As such, it is the basic facilitation of the individuality's own growth process.
There is nothing about the dream's own experienced nature which requires us to assume that all of its experience stuff is in the dreamer any more than is all of the more factual experience stuff of his waking life. Moreover, the dream itself is positive to the contrary, with things, persons and events in it quite distinguishable from the dreamer and his own acts. We lose these distinctions only along with our whole sense of the primary reality of the dream when and as we ourselves have removed into the conscious field by waking. In short, all this happens in consequence of our own change of field.
In the second place, what is there to require assuming that all of the dream experience is just psychic, i.