After a hundred years of psychoanalysis, what has the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams now become? Are what Simic calls "the films of our lives" still the royal road to the unconscious or do we now have a different concept both of dreams and of the unconscious? These are just some of the questions that this book seeks to answer.

First published in Italy in 2013 as "Il sogno necessario: nuove teorie e tecniche dell'interpretazione in psicoanalisi" by FrancoAngeli, Milan.