Open AccessTowards a New Model of Dream Interpretation?
Author(s) -
Mark Hebbrecht
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revue roumaine de psychanalyse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2457-6972
pISSN - 2285-1518
DOI - 10.2478/rjp-2021-0006
Subject(s) - dream , unconscious mind , countertransference , psychoanalytic dream interpretation , psychoanalysis , interpretation (philosophy) , illusion , psychology , transference , session (web analytics) , psychoanalytic theory , focus (optics) , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , physics , world wide web , optics
The discussion of an analytic session which includes the dream of a patient is followed by some theoretical reflections on contemporary dream interpretation in clinical psychoanalysis. The approach to dreams is increasingly intersubjective and relational. The focus is more on the dream as a curtain of illusion. Contemporary analysts are focused on the unconscious message in the dream about transference-countertransference dynamics, the functioning of the analyst and his way of intervening, the use of the dream as play material, the portrayal of the unconscious intrapsychic and relational situation, countertransference dreams and sequential dreams. The way of working with dreams is much influenced by the work of Bion and his followers.