Even in psychoanalysis there seems to be a longing to understand reality as something that expresses itself in an accessible way, something that can be uncovered in the realm of the psychic. Just as the myth of King Oedipus deals with the significance of the outer reality and how it affects the inner world, various developments of psychoanalytic theory and practice have in time unfolded different descriptions of how we should understand the relation between our analysands’ outer world, and the world they present to us in the analytic room. Through case-material from two child analyzes and with the myth of Oedipus, the paper explores how we can understand a child's expression of sexual trauma in the analytic room. Because children cannot find the answer in themselves, they act in realized ways that put the analyst to work as a translator of the children's expressions. With the theories of Laplanche, Lacan, and Botella & Botella the paper argues that the children's expressions represent the enigmatic approach of the other as always being inside and also outside - always for real and in fantasy.