This art of psychoanalysis. Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries.
@article{Ogden2004ThisAO, title={This art of psychoanalysis. Dreaming undreamt dreams and interrupted cries.}, author={T. Ogden}, journal={The International journal of psycho-analysis}, year={2004}, volume={85 Pt 4}, pages={ 857-77 } }
It is the art of psychoanalysis in the making, a process inventing itself as it goes, that is the subject of this paper. The author articulates succinctly how he conceives of psychoanalysis, and offers a detailed clinical illustration. He suggests that each analysand unconsciously (and ambivalently) is seeking help in dreaming his 'night terrors' (his undreamt and undreamable dreams) and his 'nightmares' (his dreams that are interrupted when the pain of the emotional experience being dreamt… Expand
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