After studying thirty-seven collections of lullabies of all countries, ages and cultures, the author of the paper gives us an interesting account of the importance of this intimate situation between mother and child and its unconscious factors, but only from the point of view of the mother's mind.

The narcissistic love to the child is expressed in lullabies with the purpose of comforting the mother for what she has lost herself: youth, beauty and freedom. Another narcissistic idea with denying function: no mother looks after her child as well as I do announces hostile impulses towards the baby. Songs about the Virgin bring out the old wish to have a baby from the father.