Going beyond Daniel Stern

The interpersonal world of the child (1985) was successful because the theory to which Stern subjected the data from Infant research, the way he interpreted them, presents a level decidedly articulated and complete. Today, in 2013, i.e. 28 years after the publication of The Interpersonal World of the Child, we cannot but take a critical attitude to which to submit his thinking. Is it, in fact, necessary to no longer speak of the "sense of the Self" ? the emerging sense of the Self, the nuclear sense of the Self, the subjective sense of the Self, the verbal sense of the Self ? but only and exclusively of the Self-subject. In this framework of evolution of ideas, we can speak of I-subject and affirm that: the I-subject is one because it combines diversity with unity, the parts with the whole. The I-subject has more parts in interaction with each other. The various components must be grasped in their interaction and interdependence. And this on both the epigenetic and the phenomenal side. The ego-subject is in relation to the outside world. The ego-subject is not alienated from the interactive reality in which it is necessarily embedded.