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Title - Daniel N. Stern. The Interpersonal World Of The Infant.
Introduction & “The Sense Of An Emergent Self” (Chapter 3)

Keywords - Nonverbal, internalize. cognition, self/other, perception, non-linear processes, motion, affectivity, emergence, sense, intensity co-construction b/ween parent and child, syncrony, timing, affect, sensation, separation of self, dealing with the nonverbal, internalising, behaviour,fantasies, action tendencies, preferences, values, intensity, thinkers heightened arousal, continuity as a sense, imitation, subjectivity, empathy, the sense of verbal-self, The narrative self. The verbal self. The sense of an intersubjective self. The sense of core self-with-another. The sense of a core self. The sense of an emergent self. Midcdle, upper-class, mostly white. Soul, Subjective experience. Systemic. Ontology

Thoughts -
Contextualizing the developing infant.

Primary Consciousness : not self-reflective, not verbalised. Lasts only during the present moment that corresponds to ‘now’.

….a traditional thought : ‘a sharp separation between body and mind exists’.

An Emergent Self : experiencing being alive while encountering the world (or yourself) at any given moment. An awareness of the process of living an experience.
A sense that comes into being during the first two months. A sense of organisation in the process of formation, a sense that remains active for the rest of life.

Continuity : a sense, is a consistently found continuity, since the sensation of going-on-being emerges only when an experience is brought forward into a present moment. Flow of action. Connection of series.

Cultural Variables : facial expressions, or lack thereof; vocalizations, or silences; body orientations; physical distances; gestures; ways of being held; the rhythms, timing, and duration of acts and activities.

Subjective experience : infants live a very subjective life, filled with changing passions and confusions. They struggle with blurred social events that presumably are seen as unconnected and unintergrated

Parents view young infants : as physiological systems in need of regulation. As fairly developed people with subjective experiences, social sensibilities and a sense of self that is growing. Authorititive shields.

Amodal perception : to take information received in one sensory modality and somehow translate it into another sensory modality.
Abstract representations that the infant experiences are not sights and sounds and touches and nameable objects, but rather shapes, intensities, and temporal patterns – more global qualities.
Developing a correspondence of a present experience with something prior. Present experience would feel related in some way to experience from elsewhere.
Amodal perceptions, based on abstract qualities of experience and vitality affects and constructive efforts based on assimilation, accommodation and association are the processes by which infants experience organisation.

Vitality Affects : properties of people and things, such as shape, intensity level, motion, number, and rhythm, are experienced as global, amodal perceptual properties, suggesting that things will be experienced directly as categorical affects(angry, sad, happy,).
Elusive qualities of feeling and changes in motivational states, appetites, and tensions - kinetic terms like ‘surging’, fading away’, ‘fleeting’, explosive’, ‘crescendo’, ‘bursting’, ‘drawn-out’.

Actions : self-generated actions and sensations are the primary experiences. The emergent property of things, in the beginning, is an action-sensation combination where the object is first constructed in the mind by way of the actions performed on it.

Pleasure and Unpleasure : the most salient and unique aspect of human experience is the subjective experience of pleasure (tension reduction) and unpleasure (tension buildup).

States of Consciousness : drowsiness, alert inactivity, cry, regular sleep. Different waking states of consciousness serves the role of organising focus on subjective experience.

Perceptions and Cognitions : where social experiences is viewed as a subset of perception and experience.

great link for emerging self antibody
and another.....Mahler and Stern

Title - Mark Rakatansky. Motivations of Animation.
Keywords - Territory. Map. Animate. Character. Vector. Motivation. Characterizing. Believability. Transformations. Gestures.

Thoughts -Isnt the art of animation animating what isn’t? Likewise the art of art? A painting is just pigment on canvas, an essay just ink on a page.

Buildings : A building cannot move as a body moves, a building is not a body. Dull. Unanimated.

Iteration : No iteration no animation. Animation cells iterate to provide animation and movement in the characters as the characters respond to the difference from cell to cell.

Vectors : A vector is not just a physical force it is said to be ‘directed’, to be ‘oriented’, to have some ‘sense’. This sense, this orientation, is its motive force. A vector is motivated, like a gesture is motivated, as a relational complex of motivation, a dialogical motivation, not as a reflection or illustration of a single motive.
The word ‘direction’ is sometimes replaced by ‘direction and sense’ to denote the fact that a vector is an oriented line segment which points in a particular sense.

Character : Character is not just predetermined and then repeated, but rather that the character is discovered through the responsive iteration of its multiple characteristics throughout the project.
If you start with character, you will probably end up with good drawings. If youstart out with drawings, you will almost certainly end up with limited characters, caught in the matrix of your limited drawings….For identity you do not draw differently, you think differently