ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author adds some more clinical elements to the analysis of the dreams during therapy. Cognition is somewhat shifted into the background during dreams, with no conscious voluntary control over the contents of dreams. This brings up a deeper level of our mental life, beneath the cognitive level, that is bound to specific contents. That deeper level is the dynamic level which dynamic psychotherapists only know too well. Recent studies by Wolff et al. and Huang et al. demonstrated that, on a psychological level, self-consciousness is closely linked to and predicted by the brain’s temporal (and spatial) structure. This very same structure features, for instance, various slower and faster frequencies nested within one another like Russian dolls. Cutting off the dysfunctional branches of the Self, demolishing the basic elements of the building, would mean amputating large parts of the Self and disrupting its mental processes.
