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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 11 & 12

 
Chart 2: Organic Life - Death - Renewal Cycle


Life, Death, Birth, Renewal,

an endless cycle throughout nature

so obvious that it hardly seems worth saying.

Yet Eros, Thanatos and Kainos

Ancient Greek for the same themes

are central to all our desires

for Love, Work, & Knowledge.

Play, attachment and attunement are desires

as is also the desire to fight for our own space.

all of which is true for all animals,

including ourselves.

The charts which follow expand the themes of Eros,

Thanatos and Kainos.