Scolni reports the analysis of a five-year-old girl who suffered from nightmares. The patient rejected her mother as a 'bad mother', a feeling reinforced by experiences with sadistic nursemaids and by the fear of being replaced by a male sibling. Her Oedipal attachment to her father, in consequence, became intensified. She dreamed of attacking beasts, devils, witches, etc., which represented her fear, secondary to the wish, that her father would rape her. The nightmare is the punishment for this forbidden desire.

In analysis the girl expressed her conflicts in her games and in numerous drawings which are reproduced in the article. She worked through her penis envy, her ambivalent feelings toward her father and her hatred of her mother. Hatred