The Work “of” the Dream, the Work “about” the Dream, the Work “with” the Dream: from the Dreamed-Dream to the Told Dream

Editorial

Abstract

"The dream speaks" in the sacred, unique and unrepeatable place of the analysis room and takes shape, emerging from the fog of countertransferential transferential dynamisms, "as if" it were a third "character" that inserts itself between "dreamer" and "therapist-interpreter," a variant of a relational, dynamic, complex and multidimensional triad: "Doctor I had a dream, I had a dream, finally I brought you, here, a dream." In "working with the dream," the therapist, baipassing the path of psychoanalytic gold of interpretation, takes the patient back to the place of the enigma, of the "darkness that speaks," of forgetfulness, of the misunderstood, combining intrapsychic and intersubjective and sharing with him images and emotions of dream reality, in the hic et nunc of the setting