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In this article, the author seeks to show that in The Interpretation of Dreams it is possible to find the outlines of an issue that Freud never addressed: a theory of the processes at work in the analytical situation. By referring to what Freud elaborated under the title of “The Psychology of the Dream Processes” (chapter 7 in The Interpretation of Dreams) we can account for these processes at work. It appears that the sources of the dream (“infantile material as a source of dreams”) indicate the sources of transference neuroses. If the aim of these “techniques of analysis” is filling in the gaps in the memory (from a descriptive point of view), and overcoming the resistances of repression (from a dynamic point of view), a crucial question remains: what are the conditions for such an endeavor?