The Interpretation of Dreams over others (including Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing) in silence, and with systematically avoiding "citing the passages in the works of his predecessors which came closest to his own theories." Neuropsychoanalyst Mark Blechner maintains that even if one does not agree with Freud's theories that all dreams are wish-fulfillments and that the strangeness of dreams is due to mental disguise, "The Interpretation of Dreams" remains an extraordinary scientific record of dream texts and an analysis of the mental operations that dreams demonstrate. The first translation from German into English was completed by A. A. Brill, a Freudian
Jungian interpretation of religion of active imagination, or “dreaming the dream onward”, to form a satisfying psychospiritual community. Marie-Louise von Franz’ book analyzing the dreams of the dying concludes that “the unconscious ... prepares [us] not for a definite end but for a profound transformation and for a kind of continuation of the life process”. She joins with Edinger in suggesting that some dreams cannot be adequately interpreted as symbolic representations of subjective inner processes, but are “metaphysical”, hinting at a reality that is deeply mysterious. Jungian interpretation of religion The Jungian interpretation of religion, pioneered by Carl Jung and advanced by his followers,