Excerpt from A Study of the Mental Life of the Child 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.