THE WRITTEN DREAM - ACTION, RESISTANCE, AND REVELATION

There is a large body of literature that focuses on acting out, but th ere is little literature on a clear action in analysis, the written dr eam. The: literature that does exist describes anal determinants prima rily. This is paper, with a clinical vignette at its center, calls att ention to primal scene fantasies and wishes as one major impetus to th e presentation of a written dream. The central theoretical point is to link Lewin's idea of analysis as a dream with the written dream as an action which invites the analyst into the dream.