Re: Freud and attachment theory

2004-03-21 Thread Allen Esterson
A correction: Sorry, I made a slip in my last message (no excuses, but it *is* difficult keeping track of Freud’s contradictory assertions). I wrote: “Odder still, although in 1925 he was still asserting that “in both cases [boys and girls] the mother is the original [libidinal] object” (1925, SE

Freud and attachment theory

2004-03-21 Thread Allen Esterson
Christine Glover wrote: >In many ways, I do see attachment theory as an operationalization > of Freud (our childhood haunts us).” Christine, could you please explain what you mean by attachment theory being “an operationalization of Freud”. What Freud ‘uncovered’ about our childhood, from analysi