The Irma Dream, Self-Analysis, and Self-Supervision

The Irma dream has special historical significance. Erikson and others have placed it in historical, social, and cultural context. The manifest dream was elaborated in terms of analytic surface with analysis of form and content, patterns and movement in time and space, etc. There are, however, limits to textual reinterpretations. Further psychobiographic consideration of the Irma dream highlights issues of transference, countertransference and their sources in unconscious conflict and trauma. The Irma dream was initially a secret dream which represented the initiation of a self-analytic and supervisory process. Freud's revealing the dream and imagining the commemoration of the discovery of “the secret of the dream” marked the termination of formal self-analysis within analysis interminable

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• It’s Not Easy to Know Who I Am”

  Open Access•Robin A Robinson•Feminist Criminology•2006

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• The selfobject function of Freud's Specimen (or Irma) Dream

  Jeffrey J Mermelstein•Psychoanalytic Psychology•2003

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• The Clitoris

  Mark J Blechner•Studies in Gender and Sexuality•2017

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• The Personal, the Relational the Group and the Social in a Globalized World—a Perspective through Working with Dreams

  Open Access•Gila Ofer•Group Analysis•2014

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• Withstanding Trauma

  Open Access•Carlo Bonomi•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•2013

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• The Riddle of Femininity

  Open Access•Elizabeth Fritsch, Paula L Ellman et al.•The International Journal of…•2001

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• Reflections on masochism

  Catalina Bronstein•The International Journal of…•2022

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• The rape of Medusa in the temple of Athena

  Open Access•Beth J Seelig•The International Journal of…•2002

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• Integrating Male and Female Elements in a Woman's gEnder Identity

  Open Access•Rosemary Balsam, Rosemary H Balsam•Journal of the American…•2001

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• Identity

  Open Access•IVAN FRAS•Psychosomatics•1968

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• The Forbidden Quest and the Analytic Ideal

  Harold P Blum•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1981

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• Freud, Fliess, and the Parenthood of Psychoanalysis

  Harold P Blum•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1990

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• The Prototype Of Preoedipal Reconstruction

  Open Access•Harold P Blum•Journal of the American…•1977

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• A Reappraisal of The Emma Episode and The Specimen Dream

  Open Access•Frank R Hartman•Journal of the American…•1983

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• Dreams About The Patient

  Open Access•Roy M Whitman, Milton Kramer et al.•Journal of the American…•1969

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• The Dream Specimen Of Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Erik Homburger Erikson•Journal of the American…•1954

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• The Manifest Dream in Psychoanalysis

  Open Access•Sydney E Pulver•Journal of the American…•1987

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