It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed.… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We humans, once we have become emotionally invested in a homeplace, a prized personal possession, or, especially, in another person, find it immensely difficult… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
