ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the significance in theory, and above all in psychoanalytic practice, of the use of dreams in their function as tools for discovering and understanding psychic reality. While dreams are potential generators of meaning in the internal world and favour the development of the aesthetic dimension of the mind, the vertex of lies leads to its deterioration. The psychoanalyst has to use the same language for communicating non-sensuous experiences of the inner world. Naming the constant conjunction is not a sensorial process, and its beginning is related to objects for which it is necessary to create forms or borrow them from sensuous reality. The chapter presents a vignette with the intention of illustrating the conflict between the emotional forces that push towards the discovery of psychic reality and mental growth, and the ones that tend towards lies, so as to retain omnipotent beliefs and avoid feelings of helplessness, need, and dependency.
