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(1955). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 36:27-30

A Presumptively Telepathic-Precognitive Dream During Analysis

Emilio Servadio

The following is an example of a 'paranormal' occurrence during analysis such as has been repeatedly observed and reported by Freud, Hollos, H. Deutsch, Burlingham, Ehrenwald, Fodor, Eisenbud, Pederson-Krag, Gillespie, Rubin, myself, and others (see References at end). I consider it particularly interesting for the following main reasons: (1) Because of the admixture of 'telepathic' and 'precognitive' elements in the analytic material (a dream); (2) because it seems to me that the material itself can be satisfactorily explained and fully justified in a psychodynamic frame of reference only if we take the aforesaid elements into account; (3) because the case shows once more that the 'paranormal' material which inserts itself into a psychological situation is submitted—as Freud first indicated—to the laws and mechanisms of the primary process; (4) because the case itself shows the particular importance in such occurrences of the transference-counter-transference r

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