ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author presents a case history of child Rosemary at age of 10. In Rosemary’s personal interview, she found a clue to her symptoms. She was brought because of 'black fits of depression'. She also had blinding headaches, nausea and photophobia, lasting two or three days and sending her to bed. She had lately become withdrawn. Along with this was a bad temper in the morning. All these symptoms cleared up when she arrived at the drawing of the dream in which her mother got run over. The girl's depressive mood was the clinical manifestation of the death-wish towards her mother which was under repression. This death-wish was experienced in the context of strong positive feeling towards both parents, who together built and maintained the good home that she lived in.
