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Affective Development (3)

In continuing with this latest series of blog entries, I will now endeavour - based largely on a personal appreciation of the developmental stages - to show how the affective mode evolves through the full range of the spectrum (containing 8 Bands and 24 major levels). As we have seen Band 1 commences from a state where neither differentiation nor integration with respect to development has yet taken place. This therefore represents - with respect to the affective function - a state of total confusion. The first task then in development is to obtain separation with respect to - what I refer to as - the diagonal polarities of form and emptiness relating directly to the volitional mode (of instinctive motivation). So the infant - indeed strictly this stage commences at the foetal stage - beings to become dimly aware of a phenomenal world (of form) as distinct from a void (of emptiness). Then when successfully negotiated (Band 1, Level 1) this leads to differentiation of