FRA OBJEKTRELATION TIL TILKNYTNING

Abstract

This article adresses the relation between Attachment Theory and its original roots in Psychoanalytical and Object Relations Theory, mainly with regard to ontological presumptions of the capacities of the newborn infant and the fundamental conceptions of the early mother-infant relation. It is claimed that Attachment Theory in a metapsychological perspective is inconsistent with Psychoanalytic Theory with regard to the above mentioned presumptions and fundamental conceptions. It is furthermore claimed that the conception of attachment in a methodological perspective led to an elaborated empirical research in mother-infant relation and infant development.