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A 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL, L., ENTERED ANALYSIS FOR ENURESIS AND "babyish" attitudes toward her mother. In her first analytic session she became increasingly excited as she spontaneously told a dream she had had several weeks earlier. In it she was standing in a lake, several men like soldiers or guards were poking spears or swords into her side. When she had finished telling the dream, she asked to go to the bathroom and, as she stood up, I noted a little lake of urine on her chair. In her excitement she had urinated. Thus she introduced her problem into the analysis.
As we proceeded over the weeks and months she became deeply interested in a repetitive type of play with wooden blocks. L. would build a house with many rooms in it. There were two major repetitive themes; one was to build the house so high that an accident was unavoidable; either it would fall because it was imbalanced or she would accidentally knock it over. The second involved a preoccupation with bedrooms and bathrooms, with a particular emphasis on where people slept. The husband and wife (or King and Queen) never slept in the same bed, but always in the same room. Beds for the children were in the parental bedroom; no matter how spacious the house, the family always slept