Steven Is a Two-And-A-Half-Year-Old Child Who Is Beginning to Unify

Multiple Choice

Steven is a two-and-a-half-year-old child who is beginning to unify the good and the bad aspects of his mother with the image of her as a separate entity in the external world.He is also beginning to develop a stable sense of "me." Mahler would describe Steven as in the _____ phase of the separation-individuation process.

A) consolidation
B) rapprochement
C) normal symbiosis
D) practicing