ABSTRACT
The traumatised mind is characterised by disintegrating, dissociative, and potentially rupturing processes that can be released or provoked by stimuli that bear resemblance to aspects of the reminiscences of traumatising events. The knowledge gained from the research presented strives to give insight into significant mental processes that are affected by traumatisation and thus contribute to psychoanalytic trauma theory and to a better understanding of how therapy works. Dreaming may serve an integrative and adaptive function in which actual problems are connected with previous significant situations and earlier unresolved problems. Post-traumatic states are, among others, characterised by intrusive phenomena within which dreams recalling the original traumatising experiences are frequent. The psychoanalytic enunciation analysis enables the researcher to demonstrate the existence and function of both the imaginary mode and the symbolic mode in the dream and in the telling of it to the analyst/researcher.
