ABSTRACT
B. Lewin's introduction of the concept of the dream screen was an attempt to investigate the nature of the space in which the dream is created and experienced. Another of Lewin's seminal contributions has led to the comparison being made between a patient's experience of a dream and the experience of an analytic session. In this chapter, the author shows via two detailed clinical examples how, in some cases at least, there is a fundamental relationship between the patient's capacity or incapacity to create a dream about a current emotional issue and the analyst's ability to work through that issue in the counter-transference. He also shows that the patient may unconsciously produce in the analyst the very difficulty that they cannot dream about. The author examples demonstrates how this is done in a very particular way, precisely enacted at the point at which the analyst's capacity to understand is, maybe for a considerable time, stretched beyond the level of comprehension.
