Wish fulfillment

My youngest daughter, then nineteen months old, had had an attack of vomiting one morning and had consequently been kept without food all day.
During the night after this day of starvation she was heard calling out excitedly in her sleep: ‘Anna Fweud, stwawbewwies, wild stwawbewwies, omblet, pudden!’
At that time she was in the habit of using her own name to express the idea of taking possession of something. The menu included pretty well everything that must have seemed to her to to make up a desirable meal.
The fact that strawberries appeared in it in two varieties was a demonstration against the domestic health regulations. It was based upon the circumstance, which she had no doubt observed, that her nurse had attributed her indisposition to a surfeit of strawberries. She was thus retaliating in her dream against this unwelcome verdict.”

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900

I like especially the way the translator has reproduced the small child's enunciation (although I don't know how it went in the original German). The anecdote never fails to remind me of when we took our elder son on holiday for the first time at about the same age. In order that he should not be too worried about leaving his home we went to great pains to reassure him that while we were away his uncle Igor would be looking after the house and the cats. On the long drive to the south of France we would hear from the back every now and again the muttered litany "Oyo...'ouse...tats" as our small son sought to reassure himself in the unfamiliar situation.

Anna Freud herself became a child psychoanalyst.