ABSTRACT
The dream is an emotional experience that is developmentally unsuccessful in that it is an attempt to fulfil the functions which are incompatible; it is in the domain of the reality principle and the pleasure principle, and represents an attempt to satisfy both. One consequence is starvation of the psyche in its supply of reality. The appearance of dreaming that the patient then presents can be due to phenomena that look alike but are actually different. The patient is now enclosed in a state of mind that is no longer adequate for his needs.The result of destruction of a is a complex and confusing clinical picture in which the analyst must attempt to demonstrate the fragments that the patient attempts to juxtapose. During this process the destructive super-ego emerges, and contemporaneous destructive attempts are made, at the instigation of the super-ego, to undo the attempts at juxtaposition and repair.
