The comparison between Mrs. N.'s and her child's psychopathology, as it emerged in their respective analyses, is not complete. There is a mass of material on both sides which has not been used in the foregoing study in which I have set myself the aim of high-lighting only the most vital points of interaction.

But even within these limitations it seems possible to show that the influence of the mother's actions, her manifest attitude, her conscious and, above all, unconscious fantasies and anxieties, is neither straightforward nor uniform. The following types of interaction seemed to me the most important ones: