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Hi "Bill."
> The scenario in human development goes something like this. The first
> relevant distinction seems to be between family and strangers, who
> provoke anxiety. The mother or caretaker provides a safe place, a home
> base. The child begins to venture out into the world, frequently
> returning to home base or looking at the mother (checking in). Then
> rather suddenly the mother becomes the other, provoking anxiety, and
> there is no home base. Since everything is other, there is an implicit
> sense of self, but it is not developed. Shortly, however, the anxiety
> lessens and a personal space, a new home base emerges. A sense of self
> begins to develop.
Yes, and that *sense* of self is not the same as the self itself. If
"everything is other," then there's evidently already a self against which
everything is contrasted.
Ted
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