ABSTRACT
M. Kanzer originally used the phrase, “the communicative function of the dream”. Starting out from a comment by S. Ferenczi, Kanzer began to develop a perspective according to which the person chosen by the dreamer to listen to a dream was “preferably the actual subject of the dream”. Dream narratives thus involve a great deal of lack of control. This is why persons sharing dreams have such mixed feelings. Introducing a dream into the conversation establishes a triadic form of communication out of a dyadic one. This is equivalent to a form of regulation of relations between analyst and analysand. The transcript excerpts in the following will serve to illustrate what is meant by the communicative function connected with the sharing of dreams. A dream can be very illustrative of the presence of a transference tendency.
