ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Sigmund Freud had based the salient features of the analytic situation on the intrapsychic conditions that prevail in sleep, which are conducive to a ‘good dream’. The meaning of the dream was very clear to the patient himself and he complimented himself on being able to cry about his father’s debility. Living with the ‘dream text’ can be an escape from external reality as well as internal psychic functioning, which inevitably draws upon primary process functioning and is enriched by it. The dreaming experience is an entirety that actualizes the self in an unknowable way. The dream text gets hold of some aspects of this dreaming experience and works into it the conflictual data from the vecu of the person, to make a narrative that can be communicated, shared and interpreted. Dreaming itself is beyond interpretation.
