ABSTRACT
An individual of every species is innately equipped to recognize vital resources and dangers and the cues to which it should attend, and is innately equipped to store and subsequently draw on new information. The visual image presents to the infant for the first time a total and integrated visual experience of his body; in pleasure, the infant affectively projects himself into it. If the distinctively long period of human childhood is governed by the tension between the child's physical and mental capacities and the ideal, total and integrated, image of himself, it is, Sigmund Freud argued, a time when libidinal energies and impulses dominate, if anything, more than in adulthood. The infantile libido is given to immediate gratification and is polymorphously perverse. Nietzsche argues that the return of ancient instincts and pleasures produces new excellences. Nietzsche argues that human speech developed out of vocalization and singing.
