ABSTRACT
An unusual type of transference is based on the dream screen. This type of transference appears as a long-lived, durable intrapsychic mise-en-scène, analagous to a dream screen, upon which other transferences are visualized and experienced. The manifest content of the intrapsychic mise-en-scène is drawn from aspects of the analyst or his surround while the latent content is based on a soothing preoedipal relationship. After reviewing Lewin's ideas on dreaming and the dream screen, I will describe a clinical case that demonstrates this type of transference and will then discuss it from several theoretical perspectives.
