ABSTRACT

A hundred years after Freud’s great work The Interpretation of Dreams, we all recognize that various new dimensions have been added to what Sara Flanders, in her excellent collection of writings from various psychoanalytic schools, calls The Dream Discourse Today. I shall present a session in which a patient’s dream poses a problem: how to consider the dream’s important content, while at the same time giving analytic attention to the way in which the dream structures the relationship between patient and analyst? The way I approach my patient most of all reflects current Kleinian thinking as well as some other recent influences in the British psychoanalytical tradition.1