Kids Furniture and Language
One of the most fascinating things to watch, when raising children, is the way that language develops. It’s something that linguists have noted seems to have a very keen uniformity all over the world. There is a definite shift in the way babies use their voices after they’ve seen themselves in a mirror. This is what the French psychoanalyst Lacan refers to as the Mirror Stage. At that point, the world view changes, because if the reflection can exist out there, then this means that the internal world is not the same as the external one. This is the beginning of a new relationship with the world, and that relationship seems to be guided by objects.
The most elementary things will play a significant role in their development. Things like kids furniture , and the objects one can find at the dinner table, will be among the very first words they speak. It’s a fascinating shift. It doesn’t suggest that they weren’t aware of these objects before, but only that they were not aware that these objects were not part of them. In speaking their names, they are, in effect, speaking their world into being. Separating subject and object is perhaps the single most important moment in the development of language, but it continues to get more interesting as time goes on.
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