ABSTRACT
WITH THE HELP OF THE SEEMINGLY BOUNDLESS ENERGY OF THE child's exploratory drive, the great work of the gradual and expanding constitution of the object world proceeds, an achievement made possible by the shift from (primary) autocentric to predominantly allocentric perception. Reality. existing independently of the child, emerges for him. But in the very process of the emergence of the world of objects, on the new and higher level of predominantly allocentric perception, a secondary autocentricity develops, destined to play a tremendous role in man's perception of the world. While man could not live without the perspective of this secondary autocentricity, it can block his view of reality and lead to stagnation in a closed, autocentric world. Whether and to what extent he can transcend secondary autocentricity and retain or expand his world-openness is therefore crucial for his experience of other people and of the world around him.
