Erich Neumann 
The Child : Structure and Dynamics of the Nascent Personality [PDF ebook] 
Structure and Dynamics of the Nascent Personality

The Child is an examination of the structure and dynamics of the earliest developments of ego and individuality. In it we progress from the primal relationship of a child and mother through to the emergence of the ego-Self constellation, via the child’s relationship to its own body, its Self, the Thou and being-in-the-world. We move from the matriarchate to the patriarchate; from ’participation mystique’ to the ’standpoint of the Self around which the ego revolves as around the sun’.