ABSTRACT
Psychosis, Sigmund Freud writes, reporting an observation by De Sanctis, “may come to life at a single blow with the appearance of the operative dream which brings the delusional material to light; or it may develop slowly in a series of further dreams, which have still to overcome a certain amount of doubt”. The ability to dream and to think, or to dream while awake, to “dream” the events one is experiencing, to translate sensory impressions into a elements, comes from the integrity of the dream-work a and from the production of a elements. The dream is closer to the real of common sense; it is seen as an epistemological function of the mind and essentially as the royal road to reality. For W. R. Bion, the night dream is only a small part of a much larger and continuous process which takes place both during wakefulness and during sleep.
