Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preamble; 1 Introduction and overview; 2 The physical perspective; 3 The formation of concepts; 4 Intentional behaviour; 5 'I am not yet born'; 6 The unattached infant; 7 Holding on to safety versus steering clear of danger; 8 The basic units of experience; 9 The emerging of painful relationships; 10 The language of splitting; 11 Feeling grand; 12 The joy of being; 13 The language of relationships; 14 Discovering, inventing, creating, and using symbols; 15 Renée; 16 Inadequate environment and fragile self; 17 Basic faults as the cause of splits
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19 Holding and integrating20 New beginnings; Appendices; Index
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In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures.