The suspicion that the actual events of the session are being turned into a dream came back to me today with X when at one point I suspected that my interpretation was being made into a dream. Thus, he sees a tunnel with a train in it. The train stops. “Won't be able to get cured. Too early and since I just missed it there will not be another for a long time. Minute fragments like faeces … two chairs and the three-piece suite; stool-chair. I can't talk properly.” Then he started on the ‘dream’. It was clear to me that a distinction was being made between talking ‘properly’ and some kind of talking in visual images.

In an attempt to see how these elements were put together, the first difficulty was that the terrifying super-ego would be put together. When it came to synthesis, after this interpretation, the problem was to see how elements were combined. I suspect that Freud's displacement etc. is relevant; he took up only the negative attitude, dreams as ‘concealing’ something, not the way in which the necessary dream is constructed.