ABSTRACT
This chapter describes dreams in the domain of the analytical session. During the session the analyst's interventions influence the patient's reverie and, in our opinion, can modify something in the dreams when they are told at the end of the session. The patient's dramatized story of the dream has no clear plot; or even if it has at first, it is liable to be modified as the relationship in the session develops. The incidents of the dramatization, how the analyst takes on the role the patient gives him, how he confirms or denies it by his attitude, his silences, or his comments are also important in understanding his dreams. The chapter also describes how both patients lived out their dreams in the session and how something in the dreams that the patient claimed to have had during the night seemed to have changed according to the patient's experience with the analyst in the session.
