These insects can be quoted as analogies to what takes place in the psyche of the child. They live on sticks and leaves and resemble them so closely that they have become as one with their environment. Something like that happens in the child. He takes the environment in and transforms himself accordingly like leaf-insects or stick-insects. This is very interesting indeed! The impressions that the environment gives to them are so great that some biological or psycho -chemical transformation makes them resemble their environment. They become like the thing they love. This power of taking in the
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