title: Further thoughts about "nothing".
abstract: Some meanings of "nothing" are delineated according to their acquisition, confluence, and transformation in the course of the child's development of drives, the ego, and object relations. This sketch is illustrated mainly from King Lear.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shengold
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004324:Drama; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory