ABSTRACT
S. Freud writes, "There is much more continuity between intra-uterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe". In this chapter, the author discusses Wilfred Bion's ideas of reverie and dreaming, and Donald Meltzer's thoughts on counterdreaming, as means of penetrating the caesura, traversing and transcending the gap between mind and mind. Furthermore, in line with Bion's thinking, the author elaborates the notion that when the patient's dreaming comes to a halt, or encounters a caesura, it is up to the analyst to dream that which the patient cannot dream. Thus setting the suspended process of dreaming back in motion and facilitating the generation of dialectical movement between different, and often remote, parts of the Self. Emotional growth and the possibility of encountering emotional truth require not only traversing caesuras, but creating, or discovering, new, surprising, and unexpected ones too.
