ABSTRACT
Bion's theory of the analytic field takes the Freudian paradigm of dreaming to its extreme consequences but also reinscribes it in an intersubjective frame. The meeting of patient and analyst gives rise to a third area that is created by both, and that is greater than the sum of the initial parts. Waking the group from a sort of "transparency of meaning" delusion, the wall of square brackets that ran through the text transformed itself into a dream, dreamt by the group during the actual events occurring in the supervision meeting. Even if initiated through conscious intent, transformations in dreaming always seem to produce an enchanting result. In Bion, the closest equivalent to D. W. Winnicott's concept is a quality that spans both the capacity for reverie and transformation in hallucinosis. Transformation in hallucinosis is a concept Bion developed but one that, in the author opinion, only takes on real functionality within the frame of post-Bionian theory of the analytic field.
