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The author wishes to illustrate two dimensions of couple therapy process that are enhanced by dream work: The first dimension is the unconscious elaboration of the couple relationship, and the second is how the couple provides material to instruct the therapist on how the therapy is going. The dreams will illustrate the transference to the therapist, couple developmental issues, and conflicts, not yet consciously available. The clinical usefulness of couple dreams in deepening the treatment will be discussed. Several vignettes will be offered to illustrate how each spouse uses the method of free association in working with dreams. Transference-countertransference valencies will also be discussed.

The authors propose a reflection around dreaming in the psychotherapy of the couple, what point of articulation between the intrapsychic space and common and shared psychic space. The ability to dream takes shape in this place and so gives represent ability to sings of experience that have not left representations in the psychic of subject that form it. We will refer to certain dreams told within the psychotherapy of the couple in which one can see the emerging of a representative capacity and of a think ability both individually and of the couple. In these the absence of psychic content is brought to light and the primary fragility on which was based the collusion and the process of transformation is put in evidence through unlinking and relinking of investiment.

The paper treats the sharing of a dream’s narration within the analytical relationship, using some clinical examples drawn from couple’s therapy situations. This sharing achieved at the frontier of dreaming (according to Ogden’s expression) extends the dreamy experience beyond the real dream’s space . The dream’s narration within a widened contest (setting of group, couple and family) realizes a common experience which includes besides the feelings of the dreamer also the feelings of the dream’s and waking thoughts and an enlargement of the boundaries of Self experience.