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S. Freud, Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety.
There is much more continuity between intra-uterine life and earliest infancy than the impressive caesura of the act of birth allows us to believe.
M. Buber, I and Thou.
The prenatal life of the child is a pure natural association, a flowing toward each other, a bodily reciprocity; and the life horizon of the developing being appears uniquely inscribed, and yet also not inscribed, in that of the being that carries it; for the womb in which it dwells is not solely that of the human mother.
V. C. Walsh, ‘Preface’ to Introduction to Contemporary Microeconomics.
If one leaves a happy, spirited discussion with friends about currently debated topics … to get down to the job of arranging introductory lectures on the subject for a large audience, one may be struck by a certain oddity. The two worlds seem to have no intersection.
M. Buber, I and Thou.
Every developing human child rests, like all developing beings, in the womb of the great mother – the undifferentiated, not yet formed primal world. From this it detaches itself to enter a personal life, and it is only in dark hours when we slip out of this again (as happens even to the healthy, night after night) that we are close to her again. But this detachment is not sudden … like that from the bodily mother.