Jung criticizes Freud for his hermeneutic of repression as unsatisfactory. For Freud, dreams are, for instance, containers for the wishes that our concious scruples will not allow.
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If this method is applied to artistic interpretation, then human art is analogous to a disease; art itself becomes a mere neurotic vehicle for expressing repression. But there is more to art than the possible psychological processes which create it.
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Jung uses the example of Plato's Cave. Under Freud's hermeneutic, the cave represents the uterus, but even if this were somehow true, so what? It would still just be the material out of which Plato formed his philosophical idea.
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