ABSTRACT
Edouard Claparede, a pioneer in the field of psychology and education, used to say "Playing is the child's work." Object relations will grow through sense impressions that will need dreaming and playing to become thinking and acting. When looking at a young child, it quickly becomes obvious that every spontaneous activity has a "dreaming" quality that proposes to the observer an incomparable blend of primary and secondary ways of psychic functioning, in logics as well as in the ways of defences. If the reverie could be considered as a spontaneous tendency of the "good enough" mother, playing could well be the favourite malleable medium of the father. The reverie of the parents will help them bring the child to believe them when they speak of the "wicked ones" of the external reality. Attention can be considered as a "qualification of the life and death instincts" through the introjection/projection process.
