I was wondering the other day about the child Jesus.
Imaging growing up as a God, omnipotent and omniscient. The defining characteristic of early childhood is frustration, an inability to control your environment. Most of our psychology seems to emerge from our early inability to exert control.
Without any barrier between wish and fulfillment, the ego and superego would never form. Every whim would be met by an immediate and instinctual gratification.
Imagine the self-control that would be required to live in a world without any barrier to your desires.
Such an experience would not be, in any way, human.
So... I guess it didn't work like that.
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