Still dreaming?
"Dream: Its Interpretation and Use in Lacanian Treatment" is the title of the congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), which was postponed from April to December 2020 and finally cancelled due to the pandemic, which should have taken place in Buenos Aires. Members of the "Dream-Cartel" will organize this field evening with their contributions, in which Shlomo Lieber, the Plus One of this cartel, will also participate. 120 years after the publication of the Interpretation of Dreams, the question of the use of dreams in the Analytical Cure is posed anew. Freud discovered the dream as an interpretation of the unconscious. He regarded the dream as the guardian of sleep. Lacan's desire on the other hand was not for the dream but for awakening. In his text "Awakening" JAM says: "The desire to awaken to the real is, without a doubt, masochistic, since everything that is given us of the real is a symptom. Love your Symptom, as you love yourself: I hardly dare utter this injunction. However, in my opinion, it is the only way out that suggests itself for a discourse that would not be a semblant."