I.The basis for the symbolic representation of the body:—1. The growth of knowledge and the growth of language depend upon states of instinctual tension in the infant and child.—2. This tension is a body function.—3. The first learning therefore concerns itself almost entirely with bodily things, the child learns the parts, the products, the needs and feelings of the body, and so on.—4. All new knowledge must relate itself automatically to that already known.—5. Therefore all new knowledge must have special points of reference to bodily things.—6. Therefore as the outside world is apperceived, each new unit comes to have special significance with relation to various parts of the body,—i.e., representing parts of the body by analogy, at first consciously and later unconsciously.—7. This "body language" is used freely in early childhood, but later in

life occurs chiefly in dreams, in dozing states, in delirious reactions, and in symptom productions.