Boundaries and depths of the oneiric

After reviewing the rich fabric of Freud's conceptualization of dreams, the author concentrates on its emotional, trauma-related vertex, and compares it with the approach of Bion and his followers by exploring what is commonly known as "dream thought". She arrives at this concept by way of an initial consideration of night dreams. Then this thought "dreams" a dream by a kind of emotional breathing with an admixture of reverie, on the boundaries of the inter-subjectivity that links the psyches of the two members of the analytic couple while taking account of what could not be said, let alone thought, and as the scenario of the traumatic elements of the session. The author continues her consideration of the "spectrum of oneric" when it extends to the boundaries and depths by virtue of the analyst's resonance-based listening. She suggests a comparative approach involving to be in "at-one-ment" with the emotions and its potential for unison, with the chimera. In its aura of depersonalization, hallucination, accompanied by its pictographic realization, the chimera emerges from the meeting of the unconscious traumatic traces between the two protagonists and proclaims the path of symbolisation. Does it go further or deeper than the "at-one-ment" or unison?