ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three pathways by which the analyst represents his unconscious experience in the immediacy of the clinical hour: reverie, joke-work and the countertransference dream. It discusses the similarities and differences between these modes of representation. The same process of condensation is at work in the architecture of jokes, reveries and countertransference dreams that appear spontaneously in the analyst's mind during the session, though these constructions are even more complex than the creation of an individual's dream. Clinical material from the analysis of an adult man will be offered to illustrate the forms of representing the analyst's unconscious experience in the analytic session. Sigmund Freud describes how unconscious wishes in an individual's dream have been deconstructed, so these inner objects of the analysand and analyst are subsequently broken apart and reassembled as the images populating the dream, the reverie or the joke.
