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Khan presents an integrated series of hypotheses concerning relationships between the analytic situation, and sleep and dreams, and, in capsule form, the relevant theoretical material from the analytic literature. The unique and valuable outcome of Freud's self-analysis was his invention of the analytic situation, a waking replica of that intrapsychic state conducive to a 'good dream'. The analyst is seen as assuming the role of the 'arouser', the wakeful one who guides the regressive drift of the patient's free associations and gives them meaning and shape through interpretations. Khan's construct of 'the good dream' is modeled on Kris's concept of 'the good hour'; it denotes a dream which incorporates an unconscious wish through successful dreamwork, thus sustaining sleep, and yet remaining available to the ego after awakening. The capacity for having 'good dreams' Khan finds to be a measure of ego strength and analyzability, and this clinical finding is related to the hypothesized derivation of the analytic situation from dream psychology. In borderline cases, the analytic situation is no longer analogous to the psychic situation in dreaming.