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The Building Blocks of Mental Life
In the absence of object constancy, it's like the child keeps having these unrelated experiences with different mothers. We know it's the same mother, right? But up until a certain developmental point, the child doesn't know. With development comes the ability to start to integrate those different representations and you recognize it'm the same mother. The person ends up seeing the world in this very caricature cartoon-like way.