ABSTRACT
Juan Pablo Jimenez’s paper is a beautiful illustration of dealing with and thinking about dreams in psychoanalysis. The psychoanalytic research by Horst Kachele shows how the use of a strict methodology and statistical analysis of the data of a long-term analysis can offer new and thought provoking findings, which are not visible from within the sessions. Jimenez’s handling of Carmen’s material is a fine example of it. This creative and intersubjective process adds something new to the manifest dream and is in this sense more than what Sigmund Freud defined as the latent dream. In other words, the dream may evoke new experiences that can have an influence on life, and vice versa that the dream life is in contact with life and all its unknown aspects. The text of Juan Pablo Jimenez shows such a radical influence of new experiences in the dream on the life of the patient and how the analyst helped to facilitate this.
