ABSTRACT
The World Association Test (WAT) sprung from C. G. Jung’s interest to anchor psychology and psychoanalysis in the ground of scientific disciplines. In the experimental research on WAT Jung found that the feeling tone was made up of early relational experiences that were lived in the relationship with the care giver, and were channelled by a model of relational functioning present as an innate pattern, the archetype. The dream opened a scenario of hidden traumatic memories; it showed a need to uncover the dissociated memories related to the trauma, and to find possible symbolization. Neuron-research on dreams and brain suggest that the amygdala may influence the REM sleep and the production of dreams through the process of emotional memory previously stored. The setting of therapy spread from the analytic room to the analyst’s enactment, facilitated by the material of the patients’ dreams, in an attempt to bridge the split created by the dissociative traumatic memories.
