The dream-like event

  • Sometimes real-life events seem unreal, due to their highly symbolic nature and relevance to the person’s inner life. In this paper, I propose that although these events are actual, lived occurrences, they can be treated like dreams, with significant clinical effect. These >dream-like< events (DLEs) – distinguished from Jung’s synchronicity events – seem to be universal, even though some people are more perceptive of them than others. DLEs are usually reported in therapy in a casual way, as something that happened recently, or as a recollection or association. The resemblance or connection to the patient’s inner life is hidden from the patient, because of the unconscious element involved. Clinical examples of DLEs are presented, as well as ways of interpreting them. An attempt is made to put these unique, sometimes uncanny occurrences into the context of Bion’s psychoanalytic ontology and into relation to his central concept, >O.<

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Author:Gideon Lev
Parent Title (English):International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 33 (No. 2, 2024), pp. 020-029.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2024
Release Date:2024/11/29
Format:PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage
IdNo:Lev_G_2024
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