Abstract
Psychoanalysis, especially in the clinic of psychosis and extreme states, requires a wager on the part of the analyst. This wager welcomes the speech of the analysand regarding a censored unconscious. In the clinic of psychosis, the analyst’s reference to the dream in the establishment of the frame of the treatment is a maneuver that creates a working space that reveals the subjective history of the analysand. This history concerns key moments of trauma in which the speaking being found themselves without resort or resource to speech or language to represent their experience. The discourse of the delusion arises in relation to the reactivation of such moments in the life of the speaking being, and the new knowledge provided by the dream-work, makes it possible for the analysand to assume a new position in relation to their psychotic experience.
Recommended Citation
Meyer, C. (2026). The Wager of Speech, and the Maneuver of the Dream in the Clinic of Psychosis. Middle Voices, 3 (2). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/middle_voices/vol3/iss2/5