Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 21

CHILD'S TALKING |2 0 SELF STUDIED Phantasies Divided Into Two Types, One Systematic, the Other Variable. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. What do children talk about when they talk to themselves? A study of the day dreams or phan- tasies of five Washington children be- tween 3 and 6 years old has just been completed at the National = Catholic Bchool of Social Serviee, 2400 Nine- teenth street. by Miss Rita O'Grady, a graduate student, under the direction of Dr. Paul Hanly Purfey of Catholic University. ‘The conversations of these children with their imaginary companions were obtained by means of the dictograph. or taken down word for word by the mothers without the children being aware. They then' were analyzed as dreams are analyzed to find their re- lationship to the life of the child. Two Types Are Revealed. ‘They reveal two types of phantasies, Miss O'Grady says, which are quite gifferent in origin. The first and most Scrious are the systematic, where the child repeats the same story, with oc- casional variations, day after day. The second s the 1 where the subject matter is con changing The first, says Miss O'Grady. seems elearly the t of a conflict. In actual life the child has encountered problems which he cannot solve in reality. These lead to the construction of a dream life situation §n which the prodlems are golved satisfactorily. The child tends to retire further and further into this world of dreams, becomes more difficult to manage, and is likely to develop character traits which may remain for the rest of life. New Incidents Added. ‘The phanta. rially from day to day because the tion” of the problem is satisfacto ‘When it does change, it is evidence that the conflict itself is changing, Sometimes the child is starting to oui- grow the situation which is causing the trouble. Ordinarily, the phantasy situ- ation rematns fundamentally the same but new incidents are added. A peculiarity of these systematic phantasies, according to Miss O'Grady’s stud. that the imaginary experiences have little basis in the actual exper- fences of the child. The day dreamer | makes the worid all over. The out- standing instance of these was found in a little girl with an intelligence quotient that placed her in the class of child geniuses. She was an adopted child who was treated tenderly by her foster ,mother. She developed problems and ‘was taken to the Washington Child Researchh Center, which sponsored the phantasy study for treatment. The child talked to herself a great deal whenever she was left alone. ‘ways her talk concerned a similar situ- ation in which she was injured and taken to a hospital. She varied the | | and on the | tal, she thinks her mother would come THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 b | incidents of this phantasy considerably time to time. Sometimes she was hurt in a train wreck. Sometimes she was hit by an automobile on the street. Always she ended up by being taken to a hospital where, in her phantasy, she roceeded to tell the nurses and doctors hat had happened to her. While the conflict at the bottom of this systematized phantasy is not clear. Miss O'Grady says, it probably has something to do with the child's curi- osity over her mother, whom she never has seen. She feels inferior to girls who have mothers. If she was injured oint, of death in a hospi- to her. |* Such children talk to themselves most frequently and freely just before fall- ing to sleep. Then, in the dusk of the | pursery with perfect physical comfort and quietness, the distractions of the world are far away. They can pursue “Once upon 4 time there was a king and a bride and the bride was awful | 4 groups—display phantasies in which the | nice to the king and the king was awful their phantasies without the interfe:- ence of any disturbing factors. Second Type Described. The second type is the casual phan- tasies, apparently the results of over- stimulated imaginations and a drab monotony in_the real world. which have no conflicts at their base. This is deducted from the continual varia The child’s random conversation with itself seldom pictures the same situa- tion twice. The material for these phantasies is taken from the subject’s actual experience—such as the littic happenings of the day. the persons seen, the games played and the storics cad. The casual phantasies are by r the most numerous and probably re innocent enough in themselve« Nevertheless, they may lead to bad men- tal habits Miss O'Grady finds little excuse for trying to find intricate interpretations for such day-dreaming. The phantasy images seldom have any symbolic mean- ing. “Conversation” Is Given. 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Then the king and the bride awakened and saw | into these types. however, that the number studied was small and no general deductions can be drawn from them. all the food gone and they ran into the woods and found all the food. But it was dirty and the bride cried because she did not want to eat dirty food. “Then the king told her to stop cry- ing because, he sald: Don't you know that 1 have lots of money and can go up to the drug store and get you lots of food? So as soon as the king killed all store and they got lots of food and | they lived happlly ever after that.” day dreamer performs some feat which wins_ applause, which he saves a life by some heroic act: phantasies of homage and phanta- sies of grandeur, | Washington children studied do not fit study that only spoken phantasies were | to be considered, characterized by the children talking to themselves frequently and at some length. | may have phantasies which do not find the burglars he took her up to the drug | expression m this way, sible to detect them. | Previous classifications of phantasies PIE children divided them into four | saving phantasies in The phantasies of the It is emphasized, that It was stipulated at the start of the | tion Many children | the but it is impos: m Take-a- Pig:ture Week is here And we are here to make you prints of the better sort In our finishing department it’s care that counts. 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