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A patient's falling asleep in two successive hours was overdetermined, with contributions from the ego and from several levels of the id. The ego wishes 'to produce free associations while in a state of reverie', 'the wish to dream rather than to hallucinate'. From the phallic level came the wish to interrupt, by sleep, the battle with the environment. From the anal level came the wish to submit passively to impregnation. From the oral level came the wish to be fed and to achieve the sleep of satisfaction.