Kaës, René

Polyphony and Polytopism of the Dream - 2012.


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The author presents his researches on dreams and the oneiric space that is common and shared within the frame of the group psychoanalytic setting. He highlights three types of spaces for the psychical reality, both specific and articulated with one another: the one of the group; the one of the inter-subjective links and the one of the singular subject. He takes a stand on D. Anzieu and A. Ruffiot researches on the links connecting dream, group and family. He explores the specificities and characteristics of an oneiric space that is common and shared between several dreamers. The dream is formed from a double umbilical point: the one of the dreamer’s unconscious and the group’s psychical space. Based on his analysis of the groups’dreams he establishes a more general assumption that the dream is polyphonic and combines several voices, scenes, addressees. During the cure as well as within the group, he imagines an unconscious alliance between dreamers.