ABSTRACT
A child suffers humiliations. Could it be any other way? Less conscious of the meaning and effect of his actions than the adult, he
is often hard pressed to explain himself. A twenty-month-old girl joyfully paints the wall of her room with her
faeces. Her mother’s considered negative response comes as a shock. What she has done is wrong and she should not do it again. And yet decorating walls with her poo feels natural and rejection of her paintings seems a repudiation of her bodywork.
