The Infant-Mother Relationship from the Psychoanalytic Viewpoint <Tab/> It is a generally undisputed belief, that what occurs in a human beings first year of life, has a massive and lasting impact on the formation of the psyche, their Ego and what goes on in the conscious and unconscious. During this primary stage, the normal infant has an "extreme emotional dependence" (The Family and Individual Development: D.W. Winnicott, [1965] Ch1 Page4) on …
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…are particularly strong at this fragile stage. "When we consider the infant at the breast, this satisfaction displays the signs of the greatest plenitude with which human desire can be fulfilled." (Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual: Lacan J [1938] Ch1 Page8) At this time, it is the "periods in between the orgies of feeding, and excretory experiences which have excitement in themand climax" (The Family and Individual Development: D.W. Winnicott, [1965] Ch8 Page51),