Abstract

HAUDENSCHILD, Teresa Rocha Leite. Dreaming in the session. J. psicanal. [online]. 2017, vol.50, n.93, pp. 79-95. ISSN 0103-5835.

This paper is about a patient who had not dreamed until he started sleeping and dreaming during the psychoanalytic sessions. The analyst makes interpretations on these dreams in order to articulate the disconnected scenes of the patient's dreams. It enables this patient to give meaning to his emotional experiences and hence he becomes capable of appropriating his psychological resources: from his impulses and feelings to his awareness of how to apply them in object relationships. In the analysis of patients whose communication is mostly very primitive, the author suggests that psychoanalysts should prioritize the listening and the patient's appropriation of psychological resources. If the analyst prematurely preferred some interpretations that emphasized transference, the analysis would result in impasses, the author believes. This preference might compromise both constitution and expansion of the analysand's psychological space which is the basic process for future development. The author brings clinical vignettes of a 47 year old patient who has been in analysis for 5 years. In these vignettes, the purpose of the interpretations is the patient's appropriation of his unique resources. These analyst's interpretations prevail over transferential interpretations which may gradually happen later.

Keywords : reverie; continence; oneiric thinking of vigil; transferential.

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