ABSTRACT
The wishes in dreams and in the narratives are widely congruent; however, anticipated reactions of the object and the subject clearly diverge. In the dreams of the patient positive expectations towards objects and the self prevail. In the relationship episodes after a dream, sexual wishes are more infrequent. The expectations towards significant others clearly are at variance between dreams and narratives. In dream episodes as well as in the first narratives after a dream the topics are congruent, but the organising relationship patterns are quite divergent. The impressive findings concern the systematic change in dream atmosphere along the time axis: “negative me” emotions decreased, but “negative it” emotions display a stable variability. The chapter concludes that the process of change in the psychoanalysis, in basic psychological capacities—in so far as they are represented by the capacity to organise a dream space, takes place all along the way.
