Some of the Island visitors who had gone on Sickness in a child is a revealing He is shown <in his true colours both to himself and to his parents when he is off his guard, too wea or too ill to aspire, and therefore pretend, to be older or more jowledgeable or more independ han he really is.
It is indeed only after one has nursed several children several time that one finally accepts the fact that every view a child offers of himself is a tue view that can repay stud, his foremost champion—in most cases his mother. Sickness can then seem a complementary state to health.
If a mother admits that things are as they seem in a child's sickroom. she may acknowledge that the child who is feeling ill and wanting her and her only, has for the moment no private resources; though unable to analyse his loneliness, he feels over whelmingly vulnerable and_ insuff cient. He does then seem to draw strength from the presence of 2 guardian in whose perpetual ciency he always believes, Perha only when he is ill is his true d pendence apparent to everyone,
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