PSYCHODRAMATIC PRODUCTION OF DREAMS: "THE END OF THE ROAD"

Abstract

From prehistoric times, man has apparently been fascinated by his own dreams. Originally this preoccupation was focused on attempts to predict future events from dreams, or, in the earlier days of the "period of enlightenment," with the debunking of such notions. Sigmund Freud, declaring the dream the "royal road to the unconscious" shifted the emphasis from the future to the past and sought understanding of his patients' deeper, darker impulses through analysis of their dreams. To the psychodramatist,
dreaming is a creative process and the dream can be thought of as representing the early stirrings of creative impulses. As such the dream may both reflect past experiences as well as point to future directions in the dreamer's life.