ABSTRACT
This chapter shows a variety of problems connected with analysis of dreams. The infantile omnipotent phantasy that inhibits an adult patient from working in reality has its setting in an infantile practical situation about which a phantasy is rooted that has never been subjected to adult reality. The behaviour of the parents due to their own psychological reactions on such occasions will constitute an environmental factor that will increase or mitigate the child's fear of its omnipotent phantasy life. Actual primal scenes and events of the earliest infancy are matters of reconstruction, valid when dreams, associations, transference, affects and behaviour in the external world pile up evidence that admits of definite Interpretation. The dreams at the end of a lengthy analysis will be often the most difficult, the shortest and most recalcitrant of any, and one might add, the most worthwhile. In intervals of analysis during holidays and week-ends one finds dreams more prolific than during analytical periods.
