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Using a clinical example of a patient's dream and related associations, Rosolato describes a phenomenon similar to the Isakower phenomenon. He proposes a very different interpretation, however. He would call this phenomenon the "object of perspective." It often takes the form of a globular object which occurs alone as the center of the dream image, a ball which passes across the oneiric screen to disappear. This type of dream image is distinct from the Isakower phenomenon, lacking many of its secondary features. Moreover, it is not hypnagogic. Rosolato's phenomenon has aspects not just of nursing but of a general and diffuse libidinal excitation. It seems to function as a way of observing and objectifying this libidinal excitement, as if to localize it and any associated anxiety to the outside. Rosolato develops a theory in which this phenomenon transposes an archaic relationship with the breast to the genital and sexual plane. He links this phenomenon to Winnicott's transitional object. Rosolato insists on the close connection to sexual excitation and notes the interesting reworking Winnicott made in later editions of his discussion of the transitional object. In the 1971 version, all references to fetishism and other