The writings of Carl Jung have had much to say about his theory of dreams and dream interpretation. He considered dreams to be of central importance in understanding his patients and in the analytic process. However, unlike Freud, he never addressed himself directly to a theory of dreams and brought his thoughts on the subject together under one roof. His theory of dreams has been scattered through 20 volumes of his writings, in 972 separate entries.

Mary Ann Mattoon has remedied this situation. Through a thorough search of Jung's published and unpublished writings, Mattoon has compounded a systematic and comprehensive presentation of Jung's theory of dream interpretation. The result is 18 chapters of a highly developed theory of dream interpretation which includes such topics as compensatory