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The counter-transference dream

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Heenen-Wolff, Susann [UCL]

Can the analyst's night-dream about his patient be considered as a manifestation of countertransference-and, if so, under what conditions? In what way can such a dream represent more than just the disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish of the analyst? Is there not a risk of the analyst unconsciously taking up and ‘using’ the content of a session or other elements coming from the analytic situation for his own psychic reasons? The author, closely following Freud's dream theory, shows the mechanisms which can allow us to use the dream content in the analytical situation: preserved from the secondary processes of conscious thinking, other fantasies and affects than in the waking state can emerge in dream thought, following an ‘unconscious perception’. After examining the countertransference elements of Freud's dream, ‘Irma's injection’, which leads off The interpretation of dreams, the author presents a dream of her own about a patient and its value for understanding affects and representations which had hitherto remained unrepresented.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2005
Language Anglais
Journal information "The International Journal of Psychoanalysis" - Vol. 86, no. 6, p. 1543-1558 (2005)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Oxford)
issn 0020-7578
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
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Bibliographic reference Heenen-Wolff, Susann. The counter-transference dream. In: The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 86, no. 6, p. 1543-1558 (2005)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/75613