Your remarks, and previous ones in this thread, resonate strongly
with my own understandings. We place a big focus on synchronicity/
coordination in our intro developmental text, "The Development of
Children." "Getting coordinated" following the massive re-mediation
attending birth is THE first developmental task of ontogeny-- for
all generations involved.
A.R. Luria's prescription for how to know another mind, published
in 1932 under the title, *The Nature of Human Conflicts* makes
synchronicity and its SELECTIVE disruption, the keystone to inter-
subjectivity.
But what about applying the ideas that seem so apparent in infancy
to the middle childhood era? We have developed some techniques in
this area, but they are not clearly tied to affect as in infancy.
mike