ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the author’s own experience of attempting to make use of states of reverie to further the analytic process. It presents a sense of what the author mean by the experience of reverie in an analytic setting and how he make analytic use of the "overlapping states of reverie" of analyst and analysand. The attempt to make immediate interpretive use of the affective or ideational content of the analyst's reveries usually leads to superficial interpretations in which manifest content is treated as interchangeable with latent content. The author could hear and feel the chilliness in my voice that transformed the interpretation into an accusation. The reveries that followed reflected a movement from rather rigid, repetitive obsessional form to a far more affect-laden "stream of thought". The "earlier" reverie was in an important sense occurring for the first time in that the act of recalling it in the new psychological context made it a different "analytic object".
