Abstract
Sleep, food and language are pillars of children’s healthy lives, are intertwined from birth and make up the dynamic structure of child development. These are the effects of interdependent conditions: organic, psychic and social, which involve the child and result, simultaneously, from organic and symbolic inheritances. The latter overdetermines and modulates the interaction of the child with the environment, especially with the other human who is there. This heritage will draw patterns of conduct and behavior that can often contribute to changes that compromise, to some extent, the overall development of the child. In the children’s clinic, the description of developmentdisorders, from the mildest to the most severe, includes, as a rule, food, sleep and language aspects, which suggests, then, a base triad, questioning clinicians as to the possibility of there being, more than a simple coincidence, a correlation between fundamental biological functions. If this is the case, it will be important for the clinician to appropriate this perspective, since the implication will probably determine particularities in the diagnostic and treatment procedures. In this direction, it is worth deepening and discussing the development of these functions (sleep, diet, language), seeking to clarify their constitutive correlation, the link between them.
Highlights
To think about the implication it is necessary to assume that sleeping, eating and speaking involve the body, but a body that demands a name, a subjective body and, a body enlistd by the symbolic: in the linkage of the proper name and the body there is, in the reading of this trait, something that articulates through the appropriation, of itself, which is not such an obvious and simple element in the human constitution (LEITE, 2008, p.16)
The mother spaces the blows – an opportunity to consolidate the waking state – as well as introduce substitutes, which stand between her own body and that of the baby as substitutes for her presence: pacifiers, pans and toys, even the word metaphorical, the one that brings the mother, represents her to the baby. These substitutes are inserted to operate displacements in the fusional relationship that makes up the early days of the mother-baby bond, are supports for the baby to face the anguish of the separation that the sleep announces, the feeling that sleep determines the absence of the mother, deprivation of the environment that assures her life and pleasure
A metaphorical scene of this difficulty is represented in weaning, a gradual process that deserves delicacy, since it is sustained by symbolic separation operations and, it is not a "natural" event, obvious, whose supply of food and the passage of certain types to others are always quiet
Summary
Food and language are pillars of children's healthy lives, are intertwined from birth and make up the dynamic structure of child development. In the children's clinic, the description of developmentdisorders, from the mildest to the most severe, includes, as a rule, food and sleep aspects (WINNICOTT, 1975; MADEIRA, AQUINO, 2003 ; SANTOS, 2004; JERUSALINSKY, 2004) The fact that these symptoms are almost always aligned with each other, questions clinicians as to the possibility of there being, more than a simple coincidence, a correlation between fundamental biological functions. Assuming the correlations between functions makes it possible to clarify the symptomatological alignment observed between eating, sleep and language symptoms in early childhood If this is the case, it will be important for the clinician to appropriate this perspective, since the implication will probably determine particularities in the diagnostic and treatment procedures. It is worth deepening and discussing the development of these functions (sleep, diet, language), seeking to clarify their constitutive correlation, the link between them
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