ABSTRACT
The fountainhead – the power source – of every self-processing exercise is the origination narrative. The best strategy when faced with several dreams or a single but very long dream is for the origination narrator to concentrate his or her associations on one dream or on one segment of a long dream at a time. As for the origination narrative, in principle, the ideal power source is a medium-length dream that is less than a week old. The deviant frame, though welcomed by the conscious system, is also a source of anxiety in that it impairs the holding qualities of the ground rules and teacher who manages them. Death anxiety has two fundamental forms: first, secured-frame death anxieties, which reflect the inevitability of death in the face of sound holding; second, deviant-frame death anxieties, which arise from the actual harmful aspects of every break in the frame.
