ABSTRACT
The concept of reverie explains the vicissitudes of the infant’s development within its relationship with the mother, the way in which faith in the transformative possibilities of the relationship is transmitted. It becomes a technical tool for the analyst in post-Bionian developments, in which the emphasis is on the hic et nunc of the session and the development of the oneiric as an element of emotional transformation. The two poles of reverie put in theoretical development are described: the first is intuition in Bion; the second is narrative texture. The narrative game initially created in analysis is between certain mythic schemes of reference, personal, familiar, and cultural, which the patient brings, and the way in which these color and obstruct his objectives. Its musical model is the theme and variations: a strong nucleus from which some possible evolutions take their starting point. The analytic field model and narratology have in common the gradual shifting of interest from repetitive to differential elements.
