Book, Symbol Formation in Children Imitation, Play and Dreams 4/10[LS]

The Formation of Symbols in Children is a book of central significance in the psychological work of Jean Piaget. Here, as nowhere else, children's communication is studied on par with their great spontaneous realities; the data of affirmation of the child's personality free themselves from all constraints and walk freely in search of satisfaction and meaning. Imagination is the kingdom of childhood - its universe is populated by a freedom that adults label in order to understand it, but which, in truth, has a biological sense of vital balance. The genesis of the infantile universe is very close to the mystery of living things - but its mechanism, as studied and analyzed by Piaget, is one of the deepest and most convincing sources of the qualities and defects that later explode in the world of children. adults. Piaget is not satisfied with cumulative or mechanical explanations alone: ​​the power to symbolize, which is one of man's most notable faculties, in children has a transitory function. His formation is the objective of this book which, as he unfolds his intuitions and observations, expands to a unique and irreplaceable dimension of work. Discover more of the author's books here.