ABSTRACT
Freud's technique evolved in the course of many years from its original nucleus in Breuer's hypnotic procedure to its final form, when it had become as definite and delicate as that of any other specialized branch of medicine. Experiences from everyday life offer graphic imagery for the dream. Freud's analysis of his dream appears also as a short story, filled with intricate episodes and sentient, extremely vivid characters acting their assigned dream roles. A conclusion follows: the mind works unconsciously and consciously by resorting to sensory recollections of episodic life events intertwined with the inexhaustible referential richness of the words that name them. In analytic listening the focus is on the unconscious, that is, in Freud's words, a communication from unconscious to unconscious. Freud's new technique aims at using words to heal pathogenic unconscious processes while progressively undoing the layers of cover-up present in conscious words.
