ABSTRACT
In 1923, in a short clinical note, 'The dream of the "wise" baby', Sandor Ferenczi lays stress on the interest presented by a dream, a dream that depicts a very young child who begins to speak to adults from a certain vantage point or with great depth. Ferenczi proposes four levels of interpretation. With the analysis of 'The dream of the "wise" baby', Ferenczi places the emphasis on a psychic situation that illustrates the aporia linked to the immaturity of the young child - an immaturity that is inherent to both his psychical and physiological constitution, and for which he seeks to compensate psychically when he becomes an adult. The concept of the 'wise baby' appeared a second time in Ferenczi's writings in the paper 'Confusion of tongues between adults and the child'. Ferenczi draws on the figure of the 'wise baby' to illustrate the development of hypermaturity, secondary to a psychic shock.
