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The author urges the continuous analysis of the therapist. He should seek always to broaden his understanding of the unconscious by accepting its messages as revealed in his own dreams. Kranefeldt deplores a theoretical (i.e. Freudian) approach to dream interpretation as too rigid. He insists that the dream itself (manifest content) should be treated as a
valid expression of the unconscious in itself and not only as a mask for latent content. His own interpretations appear to be mainly Jungian in type. Thus, in an illustrative dream, going downhill represents the patient's descent into the unconscious and other features indicate the present state of his unconscious and the relations existing between the personal and collective unconscious. The author agrees with some critics of Adler's logic and verbal formulations but he is impressed by 'the great underlying intuitions which the words were so inadequately trying to express'. The main theme of the paper is reaffirmed in the concluding sentences. '… the dream is the only reality by means of which we can develop into awakened human beings. For we do indeed "dream" our waking life—in the sense of our unconscious fundamental attitude—in so far as we do not acknowledge the reality of which the dream tells us. "Continuous analysis" is the only path to ultimate awakening'.