What Does The Existential-Phenomenological Approach Have To Offer The Current Understanding Of The Pre-Verbal Months Of An Infant?
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https://doi.org/10.65828/e7bb7233Keywords:
Pre-verbal infant, developmental stage theory, accommodating ambiguity, the 'clinical infant', mother-baby relationship, self, differentiation, non-self-reflexive mirroringAbstract
This paper looks at whether an exploration of the pre-verbal months of an infant might be better served by appealing to the arts, and more specifically to a phenomenological approach equipped to take into account the intersubjective feel of an infant's world, than to the hitherto dominant realm of the sciences and developmental stage theory.
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