By beginning with the image of the dissection of cadavers, considered as “primal scene” of modern science, this article proposes to point to a specificity of the observation in psychoanalysis through the paradigm of the dream, no more a visible territory, but a visual and hallucinatory one. In this configuration, the observation finds itself intrinsically linked with the experience of transference. The author then points to the transferencial links which join the researcher to his object of study, by establishing an analogy between scientific investigation and the analytic situation.
Observation; dream; transference; psychoanalysis