ABSTRACT
Iiro’s story differs from dreaming about a table d’hôte or thinking of 426718. They are isolated incidents that one can think through holistically (as a whole “fitting” around a center). They yield to psychoanalytic explanations that contrast unconscious and conscious motives. Winnicott’s theme for Iiro’s drawings and associations, however (the boy’s need to be loved in the state in which he was born), suggests something far more pervasive: a style that permeates much of what Iiro thinks and does.
