Daniel Widlocher is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member and training analyst of the French Psychoanalytical Association, former President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Professor Emeritus at the University Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie University), and former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. He has written numerous publications on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He trained as a medical doctor at the Paris Medical School, and he has received the International Psychoanalytical Association Sigourney Award as well as the Lima Ponticife University Doctor Honoris Causa.

'The idea for this book arose in a debate stimulated by the new proposals of Widlocher on an ongoing issue for theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis: What are the respective roles of infantile sexuality and attachment (or primary love, if one prefers Balint's term to Bowlby's) in the construction of psychic life and the pathological forms it may take? Widlocher's paper is not only the one with which the book opens but the one which each of the following discussions comments on, puts in question, or critiques, each in its own way.'- Jacques Andre, from his Preface

• Preface -- Primary Love and Infantile Sexuality: An Eternal Debate -- Sexuality and Attachment in Metapsychology -- Infantile Sexuality as a Creative Process -- Sexuality and Erotism: From Sexuality to Fantasy -- Sexual and Actual -- Infantile Sexuality and the Autoerotism of the Transference -- Separation -- Attachment and Infantile Sexuality

Daniel Widlocher is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member and training analyst of the French Psychoanalytical Association, former President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Professor Emeritus at the University Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie University), and former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. He has written numerous publications on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He trained as a medical doctor at the Paris Medical School, and he has received the International Psychoanalytical Association Sigourney Award as well as the Lima Ponticife University Doctor Honoris Causa.

'The idea for this book arose in a debate stimulated by the new proposals of Widlocher on an ongoing issue for theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis: What are the respective roles of infantile sexuality and attachment (or primary love, if one prefers Balint's term to Bowlby's) in the construction of psychic life and the pathological forms it may take? Widlocher's paper is not only the one with which the book opens but the one which each of the following discussions comments on, puts in question, or critiques, each in its own way.'- Jacques Andre, from his Preface

• Preface -- Primary Love and Infantile Sexuality: An Eternal Debate -- Sexuality and Attachment in Metapsychology -- Infantile Sexuality as a Creative Process -- Sexuality and Erotism: From Sexuality to Fantasy -- Sexual and Actual -- Infantile Sexuality and the Autoerotism of the Transference -- Separation -- Attachment and Infantile Sexuality

Daniel Widlocher is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a full member and training analyst of the French Psychoanalytical Association, former President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Professor Emeritus at the University Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie University), and former Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. He has written numerous publications on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He trained as a medical doctor at the Paris Medical School, and he has received the International Psychoanalytical Association Sigourney Award as well as the Lima Ponticife University Doctor Honoris Causa.

'The idea for this book arose in a debate stimulated by the new proposals of Widlocher on an ongoing issue for theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis: What are the respective roles of infantile sexuality and attachment (or primary love, if one prefers Balint's term to Bowlby's) in the construction of psychic life and the pathological forms it may take? Widlocher's paper is not only the one with which the book opens but the one which each of the following discussions comments on, puts in question, or critiques, each in its own way.'- Jacques Andre, from his Preface

• Preface -- Primary Love and Infantile Sexuality: An Eternal Debate -- Sexuality and Attachment in Metapsychology -- Infantile Sexuality as a Creative Process -- Sexuality and Erotism: From Sexuality to Fantasy -- Sexual and Actual -- Infantile Sexuality and the Autoerotism of the Transference -- Separation -- Attachment and Infantile Sexuality