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This issue contains seventeen of the thirty-one papers presented at the Symposium on Child Analysis in Argentina. Vera Campo discusses the introduction of a traumatic element during a play therapy hour in a child almost three years old. The child developed intense terror on seeing a bed. This led the analyst to understand the meaning of the child's night terrors, which were the acting out of a sadistic primal scene with anal and urethral elements. Letting the child see the bed was an example of a method of quick diagnosis now under study. Simultaneous therapy of twin brothers by Elena Evelson showed fundamental difficulties caused by the special kind of sibling relationship. Magic, omnipotent control was used between the two, eliminating guilt feelings and death wishes. An Oedipal triangle existed in their fantasies, one being thought of as male and the other as female. The simultaneous analysis was discontinued once Evelson was able to achieve characterological changes in the boys. In Mourning and Its Relationship to Learning, Sara G. de Jarast describes an eight-year-old child with learning difficulties due to intense death wishes. There was ambivalent use of introjection, with strong sense of guilt, resulting from an intense oral fixation. The treatment consisted of working through the mourning period, and the patient was able to overcome the learning difficulties.
In a provocative paper, Edgardo H. Rolla describes the similarity in character, content, type of presentation, and transference relationship existing in the simultaneous analysis of a father and son. The father may have decided to bring the son for treatment because of these similarities between them. E. Jarast describes the prenatal psychic elements as very archaic experiences which are felt as active situations in the relationship between mother and child. At birth there is a rupture of the functional unti, id-ego. When, in later years, the ego is not capable of satisfying the genital d