Interview on the Polyphony of Dreams

Freud’s theorization of dreaming does not describe all the dream experiences that psychoanalysis takes into account based on the situation of the cure. The dream is no longer considered only as a hallucinatory realization of desire ; it is also a creative, restorative, transforming experience. Moreover, highlighting the construction and function of the dream in the transference-countertransference space has led to pay attention to the common and shared dream space of the analyst and the analysand, and especially their cross-dreams. Thanks to the extension of the field of psychoanalysis to plurisubjective devices (couples, families, groups), the exploration of a dream space shared and common to several dreamers has brought to light other dimensions and other functions of dreaming ; they have drawn attention to the knot between the dream and its corporal and intersubjective umbilicus, to the function of the dream-carrier, to the polyphonic structure of the dream space. These insights establish new connections with anthropological and sociological research about dreaming.