Chart 3: Eros - Creative cycle
Within the Attachment space
There is a pattern common to
three of the many instinctual desires.
The desire for attachment and attuning
which according to Bowlby
is the most powerful desire of all.
Then the desire for play and exploration
at first between baby and mum
and later for every form of exploration
intellectual, artistic, scientific and crafts.
And finally the one which Freud put first
the desire for sexual love.
The pattern is a cycle of
NURTURING
ENERGISING
PEAK
and RELAXING
which is present
in attachment
play and exploration
and sexual relating.
