6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

When I recently gave a series of lectures and was therefore able to speak in more detail than I can here, where I have less time at my disposal, I also drew attention to how spiritual science must address the problem of sleep and dreams. Those who practice psychoanalysis responded by saying that this anthroposophically oriented spiritual science speaks of a certain higher knowledge which, in terms of the strength with which it acts on consciousness, could be compared to the dream images present in consciousness, but that psychoanalysis, which is so enlightened and and scientific, is correct in this respect because it uses what people dream only to explore human nature, seeing only symbolism in the expressions of dreams, seeing only symbolism in everything that occurs outside of ordinary consciousness, in the so-called subconscious; whereas I, for example, as a representative of spiritual science, take what otherwise occurs in the subconscious as reality.