ABSTRACT

This paper introduces a dream component I refer to as an inner voice within dreams; i.e., a splitting of the self into an experiencing subject immersed in the dream and an inner observer that comments on and interprets elements of the dream. The inner voice is noticeable in lucid dreams, but not necessarily only in them. The author argues that Freud’s theories of day residue and secondary revision need to be extended since there is greater continuity between sleep and waking states than Freud presumed. Contemporary dream theories, particularly Bion’s, are reviewed. The unique clinical contribution of this paper is the use of the inner voice to deepen the analytic process by facilitating development of the patient’s inner consciousness and capacity to discern and understand their own unconscious dream material. Encouraging patients to incorporate the inner observer’s self-analysis into the analytic session enriches the interpretation of dream content and empowers the patient as an active agent.

摘要

本文介绍了一个梦境成分，我将其称为梦境中的内在声音; 即，将自我分解为一个沉浸在梦中的体验主体，以及一个对梦的内容进行评论和解释的内在观察者。内在的声音在清醒的梦中很明显，但不一定只在梦中。作者认为，由于睡眠和苏醒状态之间的连续性比弗洛伊德所假定的更大，因此弗洛伊德的天数残留量和二次修订理论需要扩展。当代梦理论，特别是比昂的理论，进行了回顾。本文独特的临床贡献是利用内在声音通过促进患者内在意识的发展以及加深辨别和理解他们自己的无意识梦境材料的能力来加深分析过程。