First of all, the child knows the mother only through touch--perfect and immediate contact.

And yet, from the moment of conception, the egg-cell repudiated complete adhesion and even communication, and asserted its individual integrity.

The child in the womb, perfect a contact though it may have with the mother, is all the time also dynamically polarized against this contact.

From the first moment, this relation in touch has a dual polarity, and, no doubt, a dual mode.

It is a fourfold interchange of consciousness, the moment the egg-cell has made its two spontaneous divisions.
As soon as the child is born, there is a real severance.