How can one not use labels when trying to identify themselves? In trying to communicate with one another, labels are necessary. In chapter four when the behaviorist responded to whether he loved his wife and he said, "I react positively to her behavioral configurations..." doesn't that imply the label that she has positive behavioral configurations??? Isn't this just a long version of the same thing??? I don't think the labels are the problem. I think it is much more the emphasis we put on the labels. When my children were young, I put a great deal of power into my label of "Mother". Now that they are teenagers, I have let go of some of that power because I don't need to exercise the power so much. The older they get the more I let them take on the role of parent of themselves. The same with many of the other labels I have. Right now a major label is "student". However, by August of this year I will gladly give up that label when I have earned my degree. At that time I'm sure I'll be taking on a new label.