Anzieu, D. (1989). The skin ego: A psychoanalytical approach to the self. C. Turner, Trans. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
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The Self is "a pre-individual psychical cavity possessing a rudimentary unity and identity."
Citing number of studies of babies, these "suggest that mental capacities operate first on acoustic material [the suggestion] that the differentiations of gestures and mimicry [...] are at the root of social communication and mental representation, comes to seem improbable. It appears that feedback loops with the environment are formed much earlier in the baby. These are audio-phonological in nature"
"the Self forms as a sound envelope through the experience of a bath of sounds [...] This sound-bath prefigures the Skin Ego with its double face, one half turned towards the outer world, the other towards the inner, since the sound envelope is composed of sounds emitted either by the baby or the environment. The combination of these sounds therefore produces (a) a common space-volume permitting bilateral exchange [...] (b) a first (spatio-auditory) image of one's own body"
Boethius. (1989). Fundamentals of music. C. M. Bower, Trans. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
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Bronowski, J. (1979). The origins of knowledge and imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Original work published 1978).
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Imagination "is squarely rooted in [the eye] ... We cannot separate the special importance of the visual apparatus of man from his unique ability to imagine"
"most of the time we use vision to give us information about the world and sound to give us information about other people in the world."
Heidegger, M. (1959). An introduction to metaphysics. R. Mannheim, Trans. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
