The Dirty Syringe, or the Dream as the Staging of an Untreatable

Abstract

Willy Apollon’s term, the “untreatable” is the name for what is most fundamental to the subject. It is an object-cause of desire that underscores how the object that orients our desire is inseparable from the things we most despise or fear about ourselves and urgently seek to be unburdened of. This article focuses on how this untreatable is manifested in the psychoanalytic act, especially as it is taken up by the dream, exploring how the dream can be considered as the vehicle through which the untreatable enters into the space of the transference and becomes an object of work.