ABSTRACT
Child development is simultaneously a process of embodiment and a process of disembodiment. Embodiment occurs as the child grows physically and becomes enmeshed in an ever-expanding web of social and physical interactions with the environment. But at the same time, aspects of psychological development, including the development of language, allow the child to disengage from the flow of sensorimotor processing via increasingly complex forms of cognitive mediation. This cognitive mediation allows the child imaginatively to transcend time and space-to be disembodied.
