ABSTRACT
By highlighting the complex early interactions between infant and mother, experimental psychologists and researchers have provided important new information about the behavioural potentialities of infants. Breastfeeding was the one area of mutual enjoyment for mother and baby. John commented that little babies drank from mummy's breast and that he had done so when he was a baby. The considerable advances in ego development during this period must have helped to reorganize and create new memory structures of his and his brother's "baby at the breast" experience. Primitive perceptual and memory structures gradually lead to the building up of inner representations which then act as a basis for the ongoing organization experiences and motor activities. The distinctions between "biological" and "psychological relating", or between "object relatedness" and "object relations" have clinical relevance. They affect people understanding of patients' material, pertaining to early experiences and the technique of reconstruction.
