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Foulkes is trying to devise more reliable methods for the interpretation of dreams by a systematic analysis of free associations; further, he maintains that these same methods permit reliable modeling of how it is that we come to dream the dreams we do. Foulkes leans heavily upon Freud when it suits his purpose and even uses the “Dream of the Botanical Monograph” to demonstrate a unique scoring system for latent structure of dreams. But Foulkes is too concerned with what he considers to be Freud's obsession with sexual symbolism and its arbitrariness.
Foulkes tackles Freud's long-term structures guiding behavior—the topographical, structural, and genetic models. He attempts to build on the shortcomings of Freud's attempted topographical model for explaining dream formation and content. In reformulating Freud's model, Foulkes draws extensively on psychoanalytic ego psychology, the structuralism of Levi-Strauss and Piaget, Chomskyan linguistics, psycholinguistic research, contemporary cognitive psychology, and recent Soviet contributions to psychology and neuropsychology. To bolster still further this impressive intellectual tour de force, Foulkes devises an elaborate objective procedure for