ABSTRACT
Freud’s first direct experience of the transference, the false connection, was something to do with the obstruction in Emma Eckstein’s treatment which delayed the conclusion of the Studies, accompanied the divergences from Breuer, and supported the investment in a new friendship with Fliess. But it also had to do with the unexpected conception of Freud’s youngest child. During those months, as Martha’s pregnancy proceeded, Freud laid the foundations for his own lesson: the Dream as desire.
With his interpretation of “Irma’s dream,” the original dream in the psychoanalytic tradition, he locates the treatment in the scenario of his own preconscious oneiric area and puts sexuality and the celebration of love at its centre, the generativity of the couple with its dilemmas and unanswered questions. Irma’s throat, the feminine at the origin of psychoanalysis, introduces us to the therapy of knowledge gained through listening to the particular perspective of the voice, and not only that of language, the junction between body and words, invoking the other in resonance.
