The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...

In the mysterious period which follows immediately after birth, the child -who is a psychic entity endowed with a specially refined form of...

...the tiny child's absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings. Here it has to locate itself, and build itself up from what it takes...

Psychically speaking, at birth there is nothing at all—zero! Indeed, not only psychically, for at birth the child is almost paralytic... These great...

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

At birth he frees himself from a prison, the mother's body, and achieves independence of the functions of the mother.