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identification. This expulsion may include split parts of the thinking apparatus (mental functions) and constitute bizarre objects. Here one is in an area of functioning of the psychotic and unrepresented parts of the personality. The product of these projective identifications is expressed in the analytic field through discharges in the form of acts, physical symptoms, hallucinations, beliefs, fanaticism, delusions, voids and other transformations into hallucinosis (Bion, 1965), in other words, into non-dreams (Cassorla, 2005, 2008). In this psychotic area (with symbolic deficit) the analyst also listens but, especially, feels or suffers in himself the action of the patient’s projective identification, his non- dream, which tries to induce the analyst into avoiding psychic change. At the beginning the analyst should let himself be recruited by experiencing the aspects that the patient is trying to eliminate. But simultaneously, or soon after, he should disengage himself from this identification by dreaming, thinking about and interpreting what is happening. That is, the analyst dreams the patient’s non-dream. The analyst’s interpretation becomes part of the patient’s symbolic network. But the analyst may sometimes let himself be engulfed by the patient’s massive projective identification and thus lose his analytic capacity. When this happens, the analyst becomes unable to let the patient’s non-dream be transformed into a dream. In these situations, analyst and patient run the risk of remaining indiscriminate, or symbiotic, in an area of mutual sluggish psychic functioning. In this case we are in the presence of a non-dream-for-two, which is the raw material of chronic enactment (Cassorla, 2008, 2018). The chronic enactment is a form of manifestation of the bastions. The analyst seems to have become stupid (Cassorla, 2013) In fact, the two extremes mentioned (dreams and non-dreams) are hypothetical abstractions (Cassorla, 2018). In practice we find intermediate and mixed situations because psychotic functioning oscillates and co-exists with non-psychotic functioning, such as PS↔D (Bion, 1963). For example, there may exist non-dreams that seek to become dreams, quasi- dreams , dreams with meanings that are difficult to expand, dreams being transformed into non- dreams, interrupted dreams (Ogden, 2005) and states of confusion that blend non-dreams with dreams. In this continuum, many different levels of symbolization can be seen, such as raw elements, precarious symbols with little capacity for connecting, symbolic equations (Segal, 1957), obstructed or sophisticated symbolic networks, etc. Behaviors that show up as acts resembling theatrical mimicry or a silent movie (Sapisochin, 2013) are a part of this continuum. In this case there is externalization in the analytic field of early mental inscriptions that were not symbolized verbally because they occurred when the symbolic mind had not yet been constituted. They are related to what Freud (1914) called Agieren and fall into the category of chronic enactments. The field of dreaming includes facts of the dream ↔ nondream gradient, with different degrees of symbolic representation and nonrepresentation. In this respect, the palimpsest model may help. Any dream covers over other dreams which, in turn, cover over areas of non-dreams that represent traumas, which cover up undreamed childhood traumas which cover over other traumas transmitted transgenerationally, which cover over other dreams and nondreams, and so forth. We should broaden the model to a multidimensional palimpsest model in constant movement. Communication between areas leads us to suppose that, when an analyst redreams
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