 A person can empathesize with any art object or person. It depends upon the ablity to imagine and to learn.
I am often amazed at the display of energy activating a group of children on the playground. They are dynamos of energy laughing, shouting, running, crying, talking, seeking pleasure in a dozen different ways.
Such a dynamo is the new born infant. The display is much different and we adults are unaware of the seething bundle of energy, all of which is directed at finding pleasure in any form adequate for that age. The newborn is a party animal filled to the brim with energy and seeking nothing but the good times.
This seething mass of energy seeking the good times might be compared with the sailor long at sea who leaves his ship and heads into town with his pockets full of money and looking for a party.
For both the infant and the sailor reality is just around the corner. For the sailor the town has military police ready and able to quell the good times if they get out of hand. The parent serves this police function that puts the standards of behavior upon the infant in so far as to what form of pleasure and behavior is acceptable. |