ABSTRACT
The birth of a sibling – or its imagined existence – brings the social foursome into the family; but at the same time the toddler exits to become a small child with other soon-to-be happy refugees. Still in the family it is also repudiating, the same toddler on the vertical axis, will do its utmost to get its mother’s love back again until the Law of the Father prohibits this at Oedipus time. Meanwhile with other children she or he will form a new and creative social group within the social world of which they have always been a part. Most importantly, with the Law of the Mother, the sibling trauma is transformed into a rite of passage so that each three-year-old together with its peers can proceed to make its own individual contribution to the horizontal axis. This concluding chapter of Part 1 scoops up the mainly descriptive preceding accounts and explorations and places them in the larger, radical thesis of the whole argument. I shall not signal each repetition as they will be used anew in this different context.
