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I have attempted to outline three aspects of the relation between this boy's ego and his dreaming:
1When his ego becomes strong enough to give up, in reality, a pathological behavior pattern which serves defensive purposes, the underlying conflict appears in intense dream activity. Many causative factors surely interact in this sequence of events, and the material allows speculation on some of them. The facet which impresses me most strongly is the following: when Danny's ego felt itself capable of dealing with the pressure of certain internal conflicts, or when the pressure itself became less intense, he could relax his defenses. In waking life this had the effect of his giving up defensive behavior patterns; in sleep it produced an increased dream activity. The latter may mean that the ego actually "allowed" more dreaming or that it now permitted him to remember his dreams.