ABSTRACT
The analyst's offering of an interpretation concerning a dream in the absence of the patient's associations would be considered by many, if not most analysts to be a form of "wild analysis." This chapter explores the implications of the idea that a dream dreamt in the course of an analysis represents a manifestation of the intersubjective analytic third. From the vantage point of the concept of the intersubjective analytic third, the question of dream analysis in general, and the handling of dream associations in particular, becomes an even more interesting and complex endeavor than had previously been generally appreciated. The chapter aims to convey something of an analytic experience in which a patient's dream was treated by the analytic pair as having been generated in the intersubjective analytic dream space. It illustrates the analyst's use of his own dreams in the analysis of the transference-countertransference.
