ABSTRACT
The analyst’s reveries will remain an important addition to the psychoanalyst’s way of understanding, in many formulations it remains confused and limiting, requiring more exploration. Some of its proponents have presented it as a new royal road into the patient’s unconscious, suggesting significant paradigm changes in the curative process, while folding into its definition concepts that have long had their own meanings. While feeling states, like sadness or excitement, are usually characterized by the immediacy of the experience, if there is some degree of psychic elaboration it can be recognized as something different than blank spaces or undifferentiated states. Words, in the form of free associations, can be the result of deep and symbolized representations. Bodily feelings as a very primitive form of representation are there from the beginning of life. While some post-Bionians view having these thoughts as transformational in themselves, there are many questions that need to be answered about this formulation.
