The Infant-Mother Relationship from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint

The Infant-Mother Relationship from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint
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It is a generally undisputed belief, that what occurs in a human beings first year of life, has a massive and lasting impact on the formation of the psyche, their Ego and what goes on in the conscious and unconscious. During this primary stage, the normal infant has an "extreme emotional dependence" (The Family and Individual Development: D.W. Winnicott, [1965] Ch1 Page4) on the Mother. Winnicott seemed to attribute this relationship to some sort of spiritual bond, which occurs within the mother and her…