ABSTRACT
Telepathy is the transference and the route to the unconscious; through its dream-work or translation our wishes are brought to life. It is this dream-work, an unconscious reading by day and by night that sublimates our deepest desires. Christopher Bollas and Kenneth Wright are two contemporary psychoanalysts in the Winnicottian tradition who have understood a pre-verbal, unconscious language, or communication between the mother and baby in terms of a maternal aesthetics. The ancient mimetic faculty of magic and astrology is for Benjamin evidence of a kind of unconscious reading where sensuous similarities are perceived "in a flash", and cannot be held onto. In children, unconscious perceptions of the dream day are not so at odds with their desires: new forms and old make friends more readily. Unconscious reading with our mothers, gives our repressed affects the right psychic garden in which they can grow into lived, maternal forms.
