I have found Bénassy's distinction between observations of infant-parent relationship and insight into infant-parent relationship a useful one. I think that what characterizes Winnicott's statement of the infant-parent events and happenings is that he details, not so much how the infant integrates (which Greenacre has done very valuably), but that he provides us with insight into what factors enable the infant to integrate a personal body-ego and psyche. Miss Freud has succinctly told us that where the phase of dependence has not been overcome, an independence has not been reached and lost again, it becomes impossible to analyse the state