Working Together with a Patient Dreams, Working on the Analyst Oneiric Text: Discussion on Simonetta Diena's paper: Workshop on Dream Interpretation

Motto:

“In the dusky path of a dream

I went to seek the love who was mine

in a former life.”

Tagore

I am thankful to Simonetta Diena for giving us the privilege to have a working-group, like in a Bionian theory and method, on dreams, oneiric material and art. This method of working together with dreams, proposed by Simonetta, reminds me of Antonino Ferro's theory about the bi-personal analytic field, co-created by the analyst and analysand, in the consulting room. In this conference room, all together, with Simonetta Diena and her patient, we are creating a group-analytic field, working with the dreams described and written by the analyst.

For A. Ferro, at an initial level of a dream, we might say that the patient is the “director” who films a mass of emotional situations, and the analyst is the “film editor” who gives order and meaning to these scenes. The analyst does not limit himself to editing but also introduces images that have been