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“Lacan explains how an infant cannot differentiate itself from the world around it.”

This sounds very much like, or that it has parallels with what psychologist call ‘theory of mind’ and the way children learn to separate themselves from the mother. I have had to read up a lot about it with my son being autistic. For autistics, the realisation the are indeed separate and the implications of this comes later than in most people. My son when he was little was always shouting “Where am I?” He meant “Where are you?” I found it fascinating.

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