ABSTRACT
The following chapter is a small portion of a two-part paper published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in 1944 by John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst and past supervisee of Melanie Klein. It ushered in his discovery of human attachment and foretells the enormous contributions of his subsequent career. Bowlby notes the affectionless nature of a carefully studied sample of juvenile thieves and here elaborates on the inhibition of love by rage, stimulated by parental neglect, and the consequent fantasies of badness that come to define internalized representations of self and others. This indifference, or dismissive pattern of attachment, eliminates “any risk of letting our hearts be broken again.”
