Personality - Early Ego Development in Children
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First year - older child is product of his infancy.
- Not blindness alone, but loss of tactile – auditory prevents attachment.
- Voidness – magical quality of appearances
- Attachment behavioral ties
- Grasp and pursuit on sound cue alone
- Hands give impoverished information early,
- Midline play is absent (visual ties)
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Personality remains centered in body / sensations / appetites
- Second Year - Small Degree of Autonomy, Mobility
- Lack of permanence – search futile
- Can not deduce the displacements, lack of spatial orientation
- Defense – motor pattern of fighting absent
- Regression – tantrums, make them motoric
- Fear – independent walking, primitive forms of aggression, curling up, prior to mental representation
3. Two to Four Years Old
- Doll play – role modeling, object permanence, sensory-motor pretend play, not complex
- Aggression – discharges – grossly without aim
- Drives - regression – vulnerability
- Masculine / feminine initiative
- Solitary play – incorporative, play roles that are familiar only
- Interruption in social development
- Loss of time, over protection
- Anxiety between parents activity and child’s own activity
- Excitement bordering on fear
- Erotic physical games
- Coping requires defensive adaptations
