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The 'unreasonable' child is reasonable according to standards of an unconscious logic hidden from both the child itself and the observer. The case of 'Jane', six years old, unsatisfied and unsatisfiable, illustrates the working of this logic founded upon emotional distortions of past situations and upon anxiety connected with the birth of a younger brother.