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Much in the way that a screen memory functions, the narration of a dream in an analytic session is a reconstruction of the psychic event. The only way that an individual can grasp the elements of the dream is through the narrative. He must put images into words and reorder this raw material to engage in the transference and stimulate the countertransference.
This is an interesting phenomenon, since to recount the dream in the session is to create anew the dream. The ideal of analytic work is effectively to proceed along the same process as dream life. The narrative space of a session resembles the interlocking of two different narrative organizations, leaving the two protagonists experiencing the feeling of a successful session, harking back to the idea of the existence of a narrative truth. Is not this feeling the same as that experienced by a parent telling a story to a child? This is a common experience from which each leaves satisfied.
Bolen, through a patient's dream, illustrates these aspects and ties them to the folktale and the fairy tale as literary genres, invented