I was never able to agree with Freud that the dream is a ‘facade’ behind which its meaning lies hidden – a meaning already known but maliciously, so to speak, withheld from consciousness. To me dreams are a part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive, but expresses something as best it can, just as a plant grows or an animal seeks its food as best it can. These forms of life, too, have no wish to deceive our eyes, but we may deceive ourselves because our eyes are shortsighted. Or we hear amiss because our ears are rather deaf – but it is not our ears that wish to deceive us. … I knew no reasons for the assumption that the tricks of consciousness can be extended to the natural processes of unconsciousness. On the contrary, daily experience taught me what intense resistance the unconscious opposes to the tendencies of the conscious mind.
–Carl Jung, from Memories, Dreams, Illusions