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There are the following states that need to be distinguished:
genuine ‘dream’, but carried on with the analyst for fear of annihilation if ‘dreamt’ elsewhere (this is an attempt to make a current emotional experience available for dream-thought and conscious thought; it is a definite and desperate attempt to make external reality and internal psychic reality available to thought, and therefore to usher in an ability to learn from experience);
hallucination of a dream, forced by the inability to dream and incapable of yielding associations (no associations, as with hallucinating the breast that yields no milk; starvation of reality means there is nothing to set against phantasy);
artefact; a try-out but inevitably failing to yield associations of any value or reassurance against the dread of hallucination, the superego and annihilation (related to fear of annihilation);
confusion due to excessive projective identification (not relevant to this situation).
“I feel there is something I have forgotten. It's a ridiculous idea and no grounds for it that I know of, but there it is. My apparatus is not working properly. Dr C thought it should be ten times more efficient; only doing one tenth of one in the States, but he forgets it is quite a difficult matter. But it's very interesting having to do it. I think it is a half only. Dr C is a very clever man, but he is wrong about this. The Z-chamber – it holds me up a bit.” (This apparatus is what you feel you have forgotten.) “It is a matter of research; it holds me up. Letter from D. I was delighted to have it.” (Stammering very badly all the time.) “Kept thinking about it all day. She's a nice person; not very interesting and a letter really just like a man. Keep having lots of dreams but I can't remember them.” (Lack the apparatus that makes
it possible to ‘remember’ and to do research.) “A dream that was horrible, though I can't really see what was horrible about it. A woman – and I was in an old-fashioned bus in which ther