Posted by Toph on January 2, 2005, at 7:07:03
In reply to Re: Idealizing » Toph, posted by Dinah on January 1, 2005, at 20:01:27
It would be a mistake to dwell too much here on purely theoretical concepts and not respond to the real difficulties that are mentioned, but the notion of dependency as pathological puzzled me when I read about it decades ago. These guys (and Melanie, Margaret, Anna and others) must mean that to be overly dependent on our parents (or surrogates) as adults is pathological not the functional dependency an infant has on it's protective and nurturing parents, right?
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