ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a way by which infants can be observed objectively, a way based on the objective observation of patients in analysis and at the same time related closely to an ordinary home situation. It also describes the set situation and considers the extent to which it can be used as an instrument of research. In the same way, in consideration of the hesitation of the infant in the set situation, it can be said that even if the baby's behaviour is a manifestation of fear, there is still room for the description of the same hesitation in terms of unconscious phantasy. The chapter argues something about the physiology of anxiety. The teaching is that anxiety may be characterized by pallor and sweating and vomiting and diarrhoea and tachycardia. Analytic experience with children and adults shows that it is often a process accompanying an unconscious fear of definite things, things inside that will harm the individual if kept inside.
