Abstract
When a child first learns his or her name he or she also acquires the ability to think and to conceptualize himself or herself in symbolic terms, as an abstract entity. By use of this linguistic symbol both the child and others are able to refer to and to think about him or her. Indeed, as the name is repeatedly applied, the child begins to conceptualize that he or she and this name are one and the same, much as the word mommy and the child’s mother are one and the same, at least in the abstract.
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Joseph, R. (1992). Repetition and Rejection. In: The Right Brain and the Unconscious. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5996-6_13
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