ABSTRACT
Indeed reveries emanate from the unconscious seen as the psychoanalytic function of personality that constantly seeks to reattain basic psycho-somatic integration, not because abstractions are not useful, but because it is emotions and concepts that impart meaning to existence, and not just concepts. That is why the author use here the expression 'somatic reverie' and not 'enactment', which derives from a different model of the unconscious than that of Bionian field theory. Bion tells us that, in order to perceive the patient's 'hallucinations', we must trust our own and apply active and total denial to material reality. But building a model of how the task of symbolization takes place in analysis requires a conceptualization both of non-verbal and verbal communication, including the non-verbal part contained in the verbal, and which genetically precedes the establishment of an ego and self-reflective capacities.
