Excerpt from A Study of the Mental Life of the Child<br><br>The appearance of this book in English translation should be welcomed by all serious students Of the periods of infancy and early childhood - not because the claim can be made for it that it represents the outcome Of a judicial weighing of all the factors that go to make the infant and the child that which they are, but because it describes, in almost monographic form, a certain, very important, group Of these factors, - Oi which nothing would be known but for the work of Sigmund Freud, whose views the author Of this treatise faithfully reproduces.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.