ABSTRACT
The experience of psychoanalysis, based as it is on free association and the suspension of visual and motor activity during the sessions, reveals the simultaneous functioning of two modes of thought: that of dreaming—the search for perceptual identity—and that of wakefulness, which corresponds to the work of thought identity. In working to constitute the psychic topography in patients with a poorly functioning preconscious, psychodrama relies on the representation of the double which can be both represented by a psychodramatist during the play as well as signified by the leader of the play. The use of psychodrama to treat "Pascal", a very inhibited preadolescent, provides clinical material that will permit to illustrate the importance of a setting that not only offers visual and physical outlets, but also the representation of the double. Individual psychoanalytic psychodrama provides the economic and topographical conditions for interpretations to be heard without intrusion, and thereby to be introjected.
