ABSTRACT
Sigmund Freud argues that negation entails an intellectual acknowledgement of what has been repressed even when the essential part of repression remains. This chapter shows that negative capability is the forerunner of reverie. The analyst should be able to make a dreamlike transformation of what is being communicated to him. The creativity of the field is a function of our degree of freedom and courage. The clinical examples demonstrate the fact that although this kind of operation sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds, what matters is that there is an oscillating movement between these two dimensions: on the one hand, the more open, unsaturated dimension, and one in which an attempt is made to give an exhaustive interpretation. Significantly, T. Ogden argues that the goal of psychoanalysis and the work of the psychoanalyst consist in having those dreams, in carrying out those transformations from storms of sensoriality into images that the patient has not been able to do alone.
