@article{ref1,
title="'Clemency on the way to the gallows': death, dreams and dissociation",
journal="Journal of analytical psychology",
year="2017",
author="Kimmel, Kenneth",
volume="62",
number="5",
pages="732-743",
abstract="The survivor of a decade of childhood sexual trauma and violence, perpetrated by a monstrous father, produced a series of dreams in the final year of a ten-year analysis. They illuminated the 'death drive' beneath a lifelong preoccupation with dying and fantasies of submission to death, perpetuated by the promise of hoped-for freedom from pain and release from a life of suffering. The initial dream involved the collapse of a team of white horses drawing him in a pillory cart to his own hanging for a crime he did not commit. It signified the collapse of a fragile psychological system based on his role as the 'sacrificial lamb,' protecting a (not so) innocent mother. The raw truth was now unconcealed: primal, violent, and terrifying dreams and affects emerged where he was now the murderous aggressor. His dreams would become primary agents for an instinctive, life-giving authenticity to emerge, offering him clemency from the shattering repetitions of persecution and dissociation.<br><br>© 2017, The Society of Analytical Psychology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-8774",
doi="10.1111/1468-5922.12360",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12360"
}