Meet In the Middle

After observing ideas from both sides of the argument, I believe that Hobson's and Soames' views on dreams could easily find a middle ground. I do not believe that everything the Freud said and theorized is false. There are, with out doubt, some very valid points and ideas in his works. As Hobson points out, they are some rather outdated in some cases unscientific but Hobson's claims that dreams are solely hallucinations. I would argue that dreams could very likely stem from memories, like Freud suggests, but that they do necessarily have to be repressed wishes from childhood. I would observe that dreams could very likely be a combination of both past and present wishes and memories of recent and past experiences. In retrospect Soames had a very valid idea of not simply throwing away Freud's theories but refining and improving them.