ABSTRACT
Most historians agree that in the history of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle marks a juncture, even perhaps the juncture. Alfred Adler’s and Carl Jung’s withdrawals became like traumas that Freud kept trying to master in writing about them. Freud acknowledged that self-preservation requires the affection or love or socialisation of real preserving carers, that is, it is a relational drive. All Freudians were impressed with the emphasis that Freud put after 1920 on aggression, because everyone who survived the First World War realised that aggression and aggression against the self had been underemphasised and under theorised in psychoanalysis. Amae, T. Doi argued, is Freud’s old ego instinctual “affectionate current” and it is a template for all affectionate love, in children and in adults and societies. Affectionately reared children, Aristotle say in the Nicomachean Ethics, will impart to their parents “nourishment”, and find this care more beautiful than they find caring for themselves.
