The Dream Recounted by Ella Sharpe’s Patient
摘要
In Seminar VI, Lacan briefly discusses a second dream dreamt by an adult: the one dreamt by Trotsky in which Lenin appears. It brings up many of the same themes as the dream about the father who did not know he was dead, so we will leave it aside here and turn directly to the far more elaborate dream recounted by Ella Sharpe’s patient. We will not exhaustively cover all the associations to it that the analyst is able to elicit from her patient, all of her comments on it, and all of Lacan’s comments on her comments. Instead, I will remind you of the text of the dream and then we will examine Lacan’s interpretation of it. The dream itself must be reconstructed a bit, as it came out of the patient’s mouth interspersed with incidental comments and associations (I have included them in brackets), as dreams often do. Here is more or less what Sharpe managed to record: