ABSTRACT
Western culture has gradually recentred the dream around an intimate subjective process and Freud treated it in particular as an “egotistical” formation of the unconscious. However, psychoanalytical clinical work with groups has led Rene Kaes to observe that the dream is not only this intrasubjective formation. The dream, then, is not, merely an “egotistical” creation: it turns out to be “deeply woven into intersubjectivity”. At the heart of its inter- and intrapsychic interactions, the dream organises itself in the dreamer as a combination of several voices in which waking residues, nocturnal paths and traces of sleep interpolate each other, at the confluence of the internal and external worlds. And like a palimpsest in all its polyphony, this raw matter becomes transformed with the dreamer's nocturnal work as well as with his conscious waking account of it.
