Quotes About Individuate

The mother's unavailability to supply the emotional fuel dampened or thwarted the child's desire to individuate and become his real self,

The worst of it was that those people out there-the fear, the suffering the wholesale death-did not really touch him. Crake used to say that Homo sapiens sapiens was not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of a primal tribe, and Jimmy would reduce that number to two.