The dream narrative is the result of a double process of transposition: from image to thought, then from thought to language, giving rise to a scenic reconstruction that enables us to grasp the motive forces of the subject's psychic dynamics. These succinct transpositions are in keeping with the traceability of the visual imprint of the images made in the course of the patient's associations, the deployment and analysis of which the author compares to a metalinguistic activity. The author suggests that the dream narrative emerges from this as an oneiric meta-language combining multiple linguistic elements; these are transformed by the mechanisms of censorship, veiled by fantasy, but can be parsimoniously revealed by analysis, granting access to the latent contents. Based on a clinical vignette, the issues at stake in the dream work and its processes will be explored, leading the patient, through a brief dream sequence, to unravel an associative thread that leads her to question her relationship with the other and her desire.