As far back as the 17th century, the Iroquois had a psychoanalytic theory about the meaning of dreams that was advanced to Freuds plus their theory was in effect at least 200 years before Freuds. The Iroquois's psychoanalytic dream theory
differs slightly from Freud's dream theory. The Iroquois theory today, appears much more balanced than Freud's.Freud
's psychoanalytic theory reduced all dream symbols to sexual or incestuous tendencies. Freud's theory did not explore or acknowledge soul detachment nor did he acknowledge the existence of supernatural beings.The Iroquois worshiped and obeyed their dreams as though dreams were their god. This is interesting and I intend to write about 3 more posts about these interesting Native Americans.
