ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that how the most effective use of reverie follows after the analyst and analysand have established a significant amount of bi-personal communication. It addresses the use of three techniques of analytic listening within clinical processes: the dream function of sessions, listening to listening, and reverie. The chapter describes a way of thinking heuristically about implementing the three tools in a progression. It discusses one of the tasks of the initial phase of analytic processes and the role of analytic listening in achieving this task. The dream function of sessions may usefully be continuously operative within an analytic process. Psychoanalysts have many tools and techniques at their disposal in working with analysands. Creating the means of communication for the analytic process is a joint project that unfolds over time and is an ongoing process throughout an analysis. In the initial phase of an analysis the analyst attends to beginning to understand the analysand's emotional experience.
