Goldfarb is concerned with the subjective facet of the child's ego, self-awareness, as seen in schizophrenic children. He describes impaired body ego and

confusion over internal physiologic stimuli. Receptor aberrations are discussed and viewed as changes in the integration of sensory experience rather than lowered thresholds of sensory acuity. Distance receptors, the eyes and ears, which favor the abstraction of constancy and universality in the environment, are impaired. Proximal receptors, taste, smell, and touch, which favor reaction to the immediate, the concrete, and the disparate, come to the fore.