ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the models that emphasize historical reconstruction or the uncovering of the repressed and the trauma. Different models emphasize different healing factors. Crucial to the development of the container is the ability to be in unison. The development of the alpha function and the whole dreaming ensemble entails going through steps that include: activities of basic reverie, which are unconscious, subliminal and continuous; activities of reverie flashes or short film reveries; activities of reverie/construction or feature-length movies; activities of talking as dreaming; and activities of transformation in dream. The unconscious is the seat of the psychoanalytic function of the personality and, consequently, in order to do psychoanalytic work, one must make the conscious unconscious; that is, render conscious experience available for the unconscious work of the dream. The chapter looks at the active therapeutic actions and receptive therapeutic actions which lead to historical reconstruction and to the role of infantile sexuality and also presents some clinical examples.
