Oneiric production and mourning process in a pandemic context

Abstract

The “Dream Talk Group” emerged as a proposal to welcome and share experiences with students of the Psychology course due to the suspension of the academic calendar in the context of the pandemic. The article aims to present the actions of a psychoanalysis implied with its time, as well as the invention of forms of care and an intervention method. Through listening and word’s circulation about the dream narrative, interventions were created in two treatment dimensions of the material brought by the dreamer: the inescapable singularity and the shared common. Dreams are understood as psychic work’s elaboration of traumatic events that reenact interpellations directed to the subject in two directions: the historical and socio-political context and the reminiscences of the past. The meeting produced reflections on death and farewells and the discouragement in the face of the government representatives’ incongruities.