lacanian attachment analysts

 

............... just born:

- baby desires to reach Mom/breast and may crawl up her tummy to reach her.

- baby already knows she needs mom, wants mom and when united with her demands love by rooting and cooing, cries to demands comfort.

mom desires, needs and wants her baby.

So begins what Nancy Hollander describes as "a somnolent sublime love affair!"

John Southgate calls this primary erotic attachment - a template for all future erotic and sexual development.