Текст песни А. Смулянский - Ребёнок и принцип реальности

The child and the reality principle

In developmental psychology, blind spots exist initially. One of these is the elusive moment when a small child shifts from trusting what the mother offers him to accepting the crucial function of reality. Even the most consistent psychological and pedagogical concepts, forced to present this transition as something inexplicable and left to the natural development of a human being, fail here. Jacques Lacan was the first who was able to pose the question in such a way as to get around this difficulty and to give acceptable explanations to the mysterious stage of mastering reality.