Part I, The Questions and Their Background, Chapter 1, Exploring the Infant's Subjective Experience: A Central Role for the Sense of Self Summary and Analysis

The Interpersonal World of the Infant will explore the subjective life of young infants in order to teach the reader about human nature. The author will explore whether infants have a sense of self, how they unify experience and how they perceive objects, along with other related questions. These questions may seem mysterious since accessing infant experience seems impossible in principle but we can use psychopathology to generate hypothesis; the book is an invention of a starting place for this process.

Enormous new research has opened doors for acquiring new information and generating new theories from that information, something heretofore impossible...