ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a case of Fabrizio, who is a patient at an advanced stage of analysis. In the case of continuous activity of basic or subliminal reverie, sensoriality and proto-emotional states are constantly and subliminally transformed into pictograms. This also entails passing on the method of doing so. This is what people find in patients who are more attentive to the analyst's receptivity than to verbal communication; one such said to me, after several years of analysis. The main aspect is to consider the relations that exist between waking dream thought and night dreams proper. In this way of seeing, night dreams would be a kind visual poetry of the mind: a communication to be intuited rather than deciphered. Basically, there is nothing that puts the two mental lives of analyst and patient into contact as well as the story of a dream.