In a number of papers Bertram D. Lewin has described the 'dream screen' which represents the mother's breast as a child sees it while nursing, usually flattened because of the child's proximity to it (6), (7), (8), (9), (10). In ordinary dreams the manifest oneiric content appears upon the screen. The dream screen represents the sated satisfaction of falling asleep at the mother's breast. It also satisfies the desire to be consumed by the breast.

A recent cartoon by Gluyas Williams illustrates intuitively