Perls states that it is the royal road to integration, of re-owning certain parts of our personalities. If we resist the temptation to go back to cliches and role playing, we use our energy to live with the anxiety of our disowned parts.įreud once called the dream the “Via Regina”, the royal road to the unconscious. Most role playing is designed to use up our energy rather than face the impasse to avoid the anxiety this produces. There in the corner was herself – molested! A part of herself she had been avoiding for years. By allowing her to experience and remain in her panic she began to face the corner of her attic. Whatever was in that corner was so terrifying she wouldn’t face it. She started to shake and tremble with terror. Then I said: “be the corner” She shrunk into herself and began to tremble, “I can’t” she said. This she could do as long as she didn’t have to face that dark corner. In the dream she was in an attic and saw a dark, musty, spider-webbed corner. Let me illustrate: A person came to me with a nightmare. “If I allow myself to experience this is will be nothing or I’ll cry for ever and ever” This is the impasse, the area in Gestalt therapy that is the dead area. These are blank spaces, areas of our life and our personality that we have disowned or are phobic about. To understand dreams, we need to look at the structure of avoidance in Gestalt therapy. Life in Gestalt therapy is becoming authentic people who arc capable of experiencing and expressing their own emotions. Instead of analyzing and furthcr cutting up the dream, we want to bring it back to life”. We do something much more interesting with them. Freud’s solution, to impose a definitive structure on the origin of dreams, restricts their meaning and controls the resulting understanding of our dreams.įritz Perls states that: “In Gestalt therapy we don’t interpret dreams. Mostly we don’t understand our dreams, rarely will you come across dreams that are clear from beginning to end. But is this true? Can we safely say that a dream is that obscure? This is perfectly plausible since a dream is like a censored secret otherwise we could understand it. This leaves us with a dream that is distorted, censored and not available to the conscious mind. This makes the dream unrecognized by the conscious mind but the wish still lives and shows itself. His concept is that a dream is a distorted representation of a secret incompatible wish that does not agree with the conscious attitude and is censored, or more correctly, distorted. Freud, who brought up the whole question of dreams enabled us to look at dreams. This quote from Perls, the founder of Gestalt psychotherapy, goes to the heart of dreams in Gestalt. Whatever you put into the dream must be what is in you.”
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