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Dreams are not merely images of the night,
they are a privileged gateway into the inner world, offering access to deeper self-knowledge and therapeutic transformation.
This workshop explores the foundations of dream theory, beginning with Freud and extending through the work of Jung and Lacan.
It highlights how each perspective redefines the function of dreams within the clinical setting, from wish fulfillment to symbolic structuring and psychic revelation.
A structured understanding of major psychoanalytic theories of dreams (Freud, Jung, Lacan)
Insight into the structure and function of dreams in psychic life
Foundational tools for working with dreams in therapy
Enhanced capacity for both personal and clinical dream interpretation
This workshop is designed for:
Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, and Psychology Students
Theoretical Foundations of the Dream
Theme: Historical and Conceptual Roots
Freud: Dreams as wish fulfillment and as a pathway to the unconscious
Jung: Dreams as symbolic and archetypal expressions of the Self
Dream Structure: Manifest vs. latent content
Types of dreams: compensatory, transformative, and prophetic
The role of dreams in the process of individuation (Jung)
Clinical Approach: Listening to the dream as an unfolding process, not merely a message
Lacan and the Dream as Structure
Theme: A Structural Reading of Dreams
Key Points:
The dream structured as language (Lacan)
Mechanisms of metaphor, metonymy, and displacement
The subject’s symbolic positioning within the dream
The “Real” in dreams: trauma, jouissance, and the unrepresentable
Clinical illustration: a dream in relation to historical trauma
Clinical Insight: The dream as an encounter with the “Big Other” of the unconscious
Session Two:
Transformational Dreams — Hildegard & Peter Kingsley
Theme: The Dream as Revelation and Transformation
Key Points:
Hildegard’s visionary dream experience
Peter Kingsley: Dreams as an entry into “radical stillness”
Dreaming within sacred spaces and visionary traditions
Parallels with Jung’s major dreams
Clinical Perspective: Approaching dreams as moments of psychic and spiritual emergence
(Dream dynamics and silence in psychotherapy)
Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.
Holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Pathological Psychology from Saint Joseph University of Beirut.
Member of the Ethics Committee at the Lebanese Order of Psychologists.
Member of the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP).
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