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Child (n.) ren ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(n.) must often re-enact, under unconscious compulsion, the unlived lives of their parents — the son of the man of mere industriousness becomes sheer erotic passion.

A Child (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born with an immense split: on one side more or less an animal, on the other the final embodiment of an age-old, endlessly complicated inheritance.

A Child (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠potential future in dreams and myth — not a backwash but an anticipation of the personality to come; that is why so many saviours are child gods.

A Child (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠both beginning and end — the creature that existed before man was and will be when man is not: our pre-conscious and post-conscious essence.

A Child (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at first a functional appendage of the parents' psyche — proof: he speaks of himself in the third person.

Child (n.) ren ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(n.) are the cement of a marriage: without them each partner's interest turns on the other, and each blames the other for the dissatisfaction felt by both.

Child (n.) ren ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(n.) complete their parents' growing up, forcing them into the role of father and mother which, infantile, they had always seen only in others.

Child (n.) ren ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(n.) are not listened to at any stage: in all essentials we treat them as non compos mentis, and in all unessentials drill them to the perfection of automatons.

A Child (n.) whose ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠difficulties look like sexuality usually reflects not its own psychology but the sexually disturbed psychology of the parents.

A Child (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is difficult — obstinate, disobedient, peculiar — is mistakenly read as especially individual; almost without exception the only valid reasons lie in the parents.

A Child (n.) who ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is backward may, for all poverty of intellect, be distinguished by a richness of heart — loyalty, affection, devotion, self-sacrifice.

A Child (n.) takes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the imprint of the parents' self-deception, hypocrisy and cowardice as wax takes the seal: repressed suffering seeps through the thickest walls of silence.

Child (n.) ren ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠(n.) have an almost uncanny nose for a teacher's personal failings and can tell false from true far better than adults care to admit.

A Child (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an appendage of the mother but a new creature, sometimes frighteningly alien: children are only nominally descended from their parents and actually born from the ancestral stock — sometimes one must go back centuries to see the family likeness.

The Child (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the dawn of consciousness is still close to the deep unconscious it has just left, which is why children have archetypal dreams — read in the East as memories of a former life.