ABSTRACT
Dreams reveal and conceal aspects of the internal world and mental function; they are mental images of emotional states. As Cassorla states: During the analytic process, the analyst is included in the patient’s sleep through transference. Bion speaks of transformation in “O” and says that “true knowledge” is something that “has been and is unknowable.” Clinical experience with patients who manifest primitive aspects of the mind allows to reflect upon the role that dreams and transformations play in this very specific mental function. Esperanza had a strange ability to live in a transparent world un-knowing to herself. The transition to the oedipal constellation and the gathering of the split parts was a difficult and painful process; it was time to integrate the coordinates of the paternal function. Transformations constituted Esperanza’s ultimate moving backdrop.
