The therapeutic consultation with J. (4 [year]s old) and his mother highlights the role of reality factors (in this case the war) and the fac­tors of early interaction in the creation of symptomatology. By means of the squiggle game, developed by D.W. Winnicott, the analyst pro­posed to J. play with her, the child could verbalize his internal expe­rience. Thus the unthinkable became thinkable.