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In this workshop I am going to deal with the clinical use of dreams, what is called working with dreams, the analytical ability to constantly fluctuate between investigation and reverie in the dream analysis.
The workshop consists of an introductory theoretical part and a second part in which oneiric texts brought by the workshop facilitator and the participants will be discussed. We will start from the Traumdeutung, in an attempt to highlight Freud's original thought as well as the developments and later openings in the evolution of psychoanalytical thought, and arrive as far as Bion's theory of the dream as an emotional experience in which conscious material is transformed into oneiric material, with the analyst shifting his/her attention from the content of the dream to what has generated it.
In particular, the workshop will focus on how the Traumdeutung establishes and develops what later will be the fundamental model of the psychoanalytic theory of interpretation, i.e. interpreting an event means giving a meaning to it through a particular method, consisting primarily in free associations and fluctuating attention.
In discussing the oneiric texts, special attention will be given to the identification of the basic mechanisms of dream-work: overdetermination or condensation; displacement, figurability or dramatization; decondary revision.
The dream interpretation will try to point out: The patient's own psychodynamic elements; Elements regarding the transferrencial and countertransferential vicissitude of the analysis; Specific elements pertaining to the hic et nunc of the session and of the analysis (Why that dream right now?); Elements making it possible to identify the process of dream-work (see above).
Movie clips and literary fragments relating to the material will be shown during the seminar.