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Foreword THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO CONTRIBUTE SOME IDEAS TO A CEN- tral problem of psychology: How does adult man become what he is, how does his situation, how do his conflicts, his capacities and their hmitations become what they are. These are large questions, and in the course of history, many and different answers have been given to them. The contribution of psychology to these questions is, relatively, quite recent, yet it already shows a similar diversity of answers. The human metamorphosis from birth to adulthood is much greater than that of mans nearest relatives in the animal kingdom, the higher mammals, and this is especially true of the developmental changes during the first year of life. Whereas the higher mammals (ungulata, whales, seals, apes, and monkeys) at birth look very much like small replicas of the adult animal and behave and move much as the adults do, man reaches this stage only at the end of his first year of hfe. Yet, any attempt to understand man must take into account not only the changes but also the continuities in his development, for the later stages still show the traces of the earlier ones, and the condition of the newborn shows the seeds of, the Anlage for, the later developments. The studies presented in this volume examine some crucial factors in the development of affect, perception, attention, and memory in an effort to throw some light, from these vantage points, on the larger, more comprehensive question of human development. The developmental viewpoint is indispensable for an understanding of man. Psychoanalytic theory is outstanding among the psychological approaches to the knowledge of human nature in that it accords to developmental factors the attention and the weight which they deserve. But while the developmental constructs of i] This difference and its far-reaching significance has been discussed in a mo
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Metamorphosis: On the Development of Affect, Perception, Attention, and Memory (Psychoanalysis Examined and Re-Examined)
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