Ondinnonk

The belief of the Iroquois Indians that the soul makes known its natural desires through dreams parallels modern psychology. Here the impulses of the soul are not the aggrandizement of desires but benevolent, life centred and health-giving, in other words a good kind of [id]

. If these desires are thwarted then the soul revolts against the body and makes it sick. If the good, altruistic impulses of human nature are listened to, then development occurs in unexpected ways.