È solo un sogno... Sognare per generare esperienze (sognanti)

.When the dreamer's conscious and unconscious relationship with her own dream turns the latter into a living psychic object, the experience that the dreamer can have of the dream begins to occupy an intermediate area, placing itself between the internal world and external reality. The dream, coming from the dreamer’s inner world, “enters into a relationship” with the external world when the dreamer lets this dream-experience affect the experience of external reality. It is at this stage that a further transformation can take place in the analysis, since this intermediate intrapsychic area can become a transitional area between the patient and the analyst, as it happens when a child is able to play with his own analyst. The dream gave rise to experiences: the analyst and the patient were able to create a potential space in which, in addition to the transference repetition, an experience was generated that gave rise to embryonic processes of integration between dissociated aspects of the patient (infantile/adult, helplessness/erotization, idealization/devaluation). In this process, experiences that had been cumulatively traumatic were able to “re-occur” in the life of the patient, looking for a possible transformation and integration. I have selected some moments from two analysis sessions in order to clarify and illustrate my thoughts about dreaming, about experiencing in analysis, about the clinical realisation of the potential space. In this particular analytical sequence, something similar to an experience in potential space has happened. In Masud Khan's (1976) terms, a realization of the self.