ABSTRACT
The child dreams intolerable dreams which bring about the relief of an awakening, or else there is a fear of sleep because of the dreams that threaten. Local and general, associated with instinctual drives, contribute to the acute nature of some sleep disorders, such as the common nightmare. The child may have no difficulty about going to sleep when staying a few days with an aunt. The good-enough environment combines strength with adaptive management in a way suited not only to the child at the phase of his or her development, but also as he/she is on any one particular day or night. With no conscious organization it can happen that the child has come to fit into an assigned role—that of contraceptive. This can become a painful affair, for the parents become estranged, the child may easily fail to enjoy his or her position of controller of the household or "controller of the world" or find it irksome.
