Margaret Donaldson on Emotional Development Through Four Modes of Mind
Discussion
- 1. The Point Mode
Locus of concern is the here and now, i.e. short time-span. Infant stage.
- 2. The Line Mode
LoC is 'there and then, encompassing 8 to 10 months, past and future have become available
- 3. The Construct Mode
LoC is 'somewhere, sometime, there is no spectrum; it requires 'imaginative reconstruction', i.e. 'transcendence', stage of 3-year olds. Awareness is not limited by space and time ('nowhere'), and can be disembedded from context.
Source: Book: Human Minds. By Margaret Donaldson. (' a remarkable book ',cfr From Intersubjectivity to Interbeing )