If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? Piaget insisted that the egocentrism of the child before its cognitive and emotional development was a very complex thing. He bowed to Freud in relation to the possible explanations of a child’s emotional development, preferring to look at how mature cognition, by which meant … More ‘Free’ is a very overused word. The real danger of the continuation of magical thinking into adulthood.