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Mar 2021
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Episode 5: Attachment—Such stuff as soul...

CéCILE LOETZ & JAKOB MUELLER
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Lives of the Unconscious

Summary: What constitutes our inner mental life is in large part based on our early relationship experiences. This principle of psychoanalytic thinking becomes particularly clear in the concept of attachment. Attachment describes the existential experience of emotional resonance and reassurance in relationships—or its fateful absence.

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