Peter Wolff, himself a serious student of infancy under the muse of psychoanalysis, has written a provocative, carefully worded paper, requiring close reading if one is not to exceed the boundaries that he sets. For example, we must keep in mind that his definition of psychoanalysis is rather narrow when compared to others such as Hartmann (1950a), who believed that psychoanalysis could encompass a general psychology. Wolff believes that “psychoanalytic theories should concern themselves with the phenomena subsumed under the concepts of unconscious ideas, hidden motives, and repression, and they should specify a method or methods for exploring the polysemous meanings of irrational fantasies, dreams, and actions