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UPDATE - 22.02.08 by John Southgate and Elizabeth London

An Attachment Perspective on Dissociation and Multiplicity by John Southgate

A paper presented at The Third Annual John Bowlby Memorial Lecture
23rd and 24th February 1996


SECTION 2 - ATTACHMENT AND THE CYCLE OF LIFE, DEATH AND RENEWAL;
EROS THANATOS AND KAINOS -
page 10

 

You have now completed section 1 in which I have
described the significance of the attachment space
in both our internal and external worlds.

I have also summarised the links between Attachment
and our developing sense of self.

What follows is another series of diagrams
where I place the development of a sense of self
and attachment relations in the wider
context of the cycles of life, death and renewal.


 




CHART 2: ORGANIC LIFE DEATH-RENEWAL CYCLE

CHART 3: EROS, CREATIVE CYCLE

CHART 4: THANATOS CYCLE

CHART 4A: WHERE THANATOS OVERSHADOWS EROS

CHART 5: KAINOS MOURNING AND RENEWAL CYCLE

CHART 6: SUMMARY