By breaking of the alimentary circuit I was referring to the individual s psychic response to the cutting of the umbilical cord at birth. The maternal breast now replaces the womb as carrier of the infant s Self-projection. Well, David, I am out of patience to haggle over this presupposed infant to mother sexuality or even argue the specualtion of this dyad which would require both the infant and the mother aware of their sexual initimacy. The metaphysics involved here is simply too much for me. The dread of self and its singularity which you speak of is, I would further suggest, a response of the infant to that chronometrically brief and yet psychologically numinous moment immediately after birth between the experiences of womb and breast when the infant is bereft of uroboric containment but has not yet reached containment within the dyad.
Some babies never get to know a breast but all babies are prolific suckers.
And i must say you have me beat for your ability to mark the numinous moment supposed experienced by the infant or however the infant may be aware that it has now entered the dyadic precinct of sucking. No-one, I suspect, would assume awareness on the part of the infant here. Between these two experiences lie those few seconds when the infant is, as it were, stranded in mid-air. In the ancient tradition it was during this moment that the soul was astrologically imprinted. I would hardly expect the infant to be so educated in older traditions.