MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY IN THE DREAM LANGUAGE

Abstract

Dreams bring us back symbolic pictures, capable of telling feelings, emotions, forgetting words and using images. The oneiric thought probably holds the office of maintenance and inner programming, training the person, even if he sleeps, to have feelings and emotions, which strengthen his “life style” in the day-time. With the help of some dreams, spaced by memories, we’ll try to point out that Carlo and Eleonora, in their oneiric production, unconsciously undergo the symbol of the “Androgynous”, the original spherical being, son of the moon, in which the male and the female are joined in a perfect synthesis of opposite polarities. We wonder if actually, pushed by the law of upward motion, we are dinamically thrown towards a fictional model of perfection, which provides for a singular interchangeable social-sexual role, where the man always seems to become more alike to the woman and the woman more alike to the man