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I think the fear of dreams must contribute to making the patient anxious to avoid the dream-work of the conscious state. Should it simply be introjection that is avoided? No: because according to me the process of introjection is carried out by the patient's ‘dreaming’ the current events. Introjection –)– Dreaming, would be the formula [see p. 61].
Anxiety in the analyst is a sign that the analyst is refusing to ‘dream’ the patient's material: not (dream) = resist = not (introject). It may be worth considering, when a patient is resisting, whether the resistance bears characteristics relating it to phenomena Freud described as ‘dream-work’. But Freud meant by dream-work that unconscious material, which would otherwise be perfectly comprehensible, was transformed into a dream, and that the dream-work needed to be undone to make the now incomprehensible dream comprehensible [New Introductory Lectures, 1933a, p. 25]. I mean that the conscious material has to be subjected to dream-work to render it fit for storing, selection, and suitable for transformation from paranoid-schizoid position to depressive position, and that unconscious pre-verbal material has to be subjected to reciprocal dream-work for the same purpose. Freud says Aristotle states that a dream is the way the mind works in sleep: I say it is the way it works when awake (New Introductory Lectures, pp. 26-27). Freud says the state of sleep represents a turning away from the world, the real external world, and “thus provides a necessary condition for the development of a psychosis”. Is this why X talks of losing consciousness? It follows on dream-work which is intended to be destroyed, or has been destroyed, as part of an attack on linking.