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The Influence of a Baby's First Steps

Because all human beings must adjust to their environment, their psyche is capable of taking in a multitude of impressions from the outer world. In addition, the psyche pursues a definite aim according to its own interpretation of the world, and along the lines of an ideal behaviour pattern dating from early childhood. Although we cannot define this cosmic interpretation and this goal in precise terms, we can nevertheless describe it as an ever-present aura, which always contrasts with the feeling of personal inadequacy.

Psychological developments occur only where there is a personal goal. The construction of a goal, as we know, presupposes the capacity for change and a certain freedom of movement. The spiritual enrichment resulting from freedom of movement is not to be undervalued. When children stand up unaided for the first time, they enter an entirely new world, and in that second they somehow sense a hostile atmosphere. In their first attempts at movement, and particularly in getting to their feet and learning to walk, they experience various degrees of difficulty that may either strengthen their hope for the future or destroy it. Impressions that grown-ups might consider unimportant or commonplace may have an enormous influence on children’s psyche and entirely shape their view of the world in which they live.

Thus children who have had difficulties in locomotion construct an ideal for themselves that is permeated by power and speed. We can discover this ideal by asking them what their favourite games are, or what they would like to do when they grow up. Usually such children answer that they want to be racing drivers, engine drivers and so on – signifying clearly their desire to overcome every difficulty that hinders their freedom of movement. Their life’s goal is to reach a stage where their feeling of inferiority and their sense of handicap are replaced by perfect freedom of motion. It is clear that such a sense of handicap can easily arise in the psyche of children who have developed slowly or have suffered frequent illness. Similarly, children who have come into the world with defective vision attempt to translate the entire world into more intense visual images. Children with hearing defects show a keen interest in certain sounds that they find pleasing: in short, they become ‘musical’.

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