ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Rise of The Self in the social act. The first step in the rise of the self lies in the anticipatory reactions which the child builds up with respect to his mother or some other person. The process of identification of the child with his mother that is, the linkage of his drive and his response to her reaction toward him is an example of the earliest phase of self-development. Similar relations of the actions of two or more persons are involved in all primaries habit-training. On the basis of recurrent needs and of repetition of the social situations in which they operate, the specific roles begin to get organized into larger units. The group control over the participating individual is illustrated in the rules of the game, in the standard skills of the job, in the mores and other folkways of the community, and in the laws of the state.
