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This book is a welcome addition to the list of books and monographs devoted to the psychoanalytic understanding of the dream. Following Freud, Sharpe, Fliess, the Kris Study Group, and Altman, the author has singled out the dream as an object of study. He approaches his subject from the vantage point of the supervisory session and the teaching seminar on dreams to illustrate technical aspects of teaching and of dream interpretation. The book is intended as a "handbook of the technique of dream analysis for psychoanalytic candidates" (p. 4). A sense of discovery, immediacy, and freshness to the work of understanding the dreamer is contributed by the classroom origin of this book. The disadvantages connected with this starting point become apparent to the reader as he/she proceeds through the many examples. Some readers will yearn for fewer examples and more analysis in depth, including a chance to follow the dreamer over time in the working through.
Because Freud's early work on jokes, slips, and dreams was written in a language foreign to candidates in the United States, the richness of detail and what linguists call the rhetoric or pragmatic aspects of the dream reporter's utterance has perhaps been lost to English-speaking readers. Lacan, for one, strongly reminds us of this possibility. With Sloane's particular interest in the manifest text and day residue, this richness is recovered. That meticulous attention is paid