ontogenesis

is not the life story of one individual but the way being itself becomes, insofar as it is.

Recast in definition form from: “… and derived sense of the individual’s genesis (in opposition to …”

is a problem that bounces from one solution to the next until it comes to rest in the stillness of the adult form.

Recast in definition form from: “… to complete stability, which is that of the adult form …”

comes before ontology and before the theory of knowledge: first how a being comes to be, then what it can know.

Recast in definition form from: “… really be first philosophy, anterior to the theory of knowledge …”

is not just how a seedling or a baby grows up; it is being itself caught in the act of becoming.

Recast in definition form from: “… to designate the development of the being, or its becoming …”

repeats phylogenesis wherever newer experience has not overwritten it — the species shows through from behind the individual.

Recast in definition form from: “Ontogenesis may be considered as a repetition of phylogenesis insofar as the latter has not been varied by a more recent experience. The phylogenetic disposition makes itself visible behind the ontogenetic process.”

Sigmund Freud

adulthood

cell

embryo

ontogenesis, n.Definitions

ontogenesis