Toward a Developmental Line for the Acquisition of Language

Subjectivity, intentionality, and the emergence of reality testing in early infancy.

“…Instead, he or she will selectively attend to those actions to which one would habitually attach significance as gestures which are normally meaningful in ordinary human discourse, (p. 93) Along similar lines, Tronick, Als, and Adamson (1979) commented on caregivers' attempts to achieve understandings of their young infants' intentions. Edgecumbe (1981) has raised a similar point with respect to early prelinguistic interactions. (See also Brinich, 1982.…”

The origins of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder: A theoretical and empirical reformulation.

“…Because of space limitations, this chapter cannot treat in detail the defenses of traditional assumptions. For the interested reader, some representative writers in this regard are Edgecumbe (1981;Edgecumbe & Burgner, 1972), Kaplan (1987), and Pine (1979Pine ( , 1981Pine ( , 1986. Counterarguments to their defenses of traditional psychoanalytic developmental psychology can be found in, among many sources, Eagle (1984), Holt (1967Holt ( /1989, Horner (1985), Milton Klein (1981), Lachmann and Beebe (1989), Peterfreund (1978), andStern (1985).…”

Language and intimacy: Some comments arising from action research in a local authority day nursery

“…Writers such as Burlingham and Freud (1947), Klein (1968), QarkeStewart (1973), Cross (1977), Clark (1978), Edgcumbe (1981) describe the intimate link between language development and an infant's relationship with his mother. Hoxter (1972) suggests that if an infant's relationship with his mother has not been too ambivalent (and she is not too vulnerable), he will be able to dare to experience and express feelings of separateness and the consequent anger and frustration entailed and will then begin to differentiate himself from her.…”