From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our… — 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 mighty conqueror of all he beholds… As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
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 maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
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 tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
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 impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share
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
