ABSTRACT
T. H. Ogden points out that while it is the client who dreams the dream, yet the dream reflects the therapeutic work of both the client and the therapist and is in a significant way, a joint venture. Ogden suggests that the therapist’s own associations to the dream, are also valid and important. Ogden might be criticized, for giving associations which lead away from the dream and simply reflect existing resistances against the dream, rather than centring on and informing the dream itself. The feeling in a dream is particularly important, as one of the functions of dreaming is to work on, and work through, the emotional significance of the events that have occurred to which the dream refers. As Carl Jung also says, one might easily be led to suppose that the dream is a kind of psychopomp which, because of its superior knowledge, infallibly guides life in the right direction.
