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Appendix Two – The Methodology in Action - Page A2-16<br />

The whole dream includes a sense of going back in time. Needing to<br />

disturb someone, who seems likely to experience the disturbance quite<br />

fully. I have/had black hair – maybe this is about going back to my<br />

beginnings as I begin to ascend. This part of the dream (some of it on<br />

the ground floor) follows having gone upstairs in the previous part.<br />

<strong>Open</strong>ing the entrance involves going back to something half-closed off<br />

(so perhaps something let go of with ambivalence such as organising<br />

training, or even group analysis/the UK).<br />

The entrance to the upstairs room was on the other side of the room to House A, correct<br />

for House B, and I realised that there was a rat in the room.<br />

As I entered the room, it was as if I was I was coming in from the far<br />

side. Things were reversed compared to my expectations. In a<br />

way, House A is no longer intruding. I also spotted a threat. Smell a rat,<br />

alert oneself. It is House B, so I was right, but maybe it is good to stay<br />

alert.<br />

P, a current family pet cat was there.<br />

She gets (or rather got: she subsequently died in November 2007)<br />

everywhere. She was also very good at tracking down vermin. I feel<br />

relieved to have her assistance.<br />

I went to look at where the rat had gone to behind the hand-basin. There was the rat, but<br />

behind it was a row of 20 or so others, and behind that rows of tiny golden Labrador<br />

dogs.<br />

The rat very quickly disappears from view. The row of rats is scary<br />

(rather as it is to discover a rat’s nest), but the tiny Labrador dogs seem<br />

very endearing, and their numerical supremacy is re-assuring. Rats<br />

becoming golden Labradors, obedient, intelligent and loving.<br />

Table A2.2 – A dream, together with some associations and comments<br />

Analysis of the dream:<br />

As in previous examples, and as described in Chapter Three, I will use a variation on<br />

Freud’s procedure (1900/1953) to address the material in this dream. This includes<br />

collecting the dreamer’s associations to each of the elements of the dream, and then<br />

working to weave this expansion of ideas into an interpretation related to the dreamer<br />

and their inner world.

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