Here are the second two claims again;
2.) "that these infantile wishes welled up from the unconscious in sleep, and needed to be disguised and censored"
3.) "that dreams can be interpreted and they can only be interpreted correctly by the use of free association to the dream material in the transference relationship with the psychoanalyst"
As for the second claim, I agree completely that many of our wishes are unconscious, and that these unconscious wishes make their way into our dreams. I will even grant that there may be some wishes that are so dangerous our mind tries to disguise and censor them. However, I must again protest the "infantile" part. What wishes could an infant have that are so dangerous they must disguise them from themselves? In childhood, adolescence, and adulthood dreams grow increasingly complex, with many hidden symbols and meanings. A part of this change may have something to do with wishes that need to be disguised, but I think that change would happen anyways. I don't think dreams are so complex just because we are trying to hide something from ourselves. On the contrary, I have always thought that your mind was trying to make you more aware of something, then to try to hide anything. The third claim is a little trickier. I do believe that all dreams are meaningful and can and should be interpreted, but can't you do that yourself? I don't think you need a psychoanalyst to correctly interpret the madness of your own mind. You should know yourself better than anyone else would know you, so why wouldn't you be the perfect person to interpret your own dreams? Sure, it might help to look up certain dreams in books or online, it might even help you gain better insight into certain reoccurring symbols or situations in your dreams. However, I still think that in the end you can correctly interpret your dreams without the help of a psychoanalyst.
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