ABSTRACT
[p. 283] The study of tensions from a psychological and sociological perspective presupposes the knowledge of certain facts of child psychology. The first question to address is whether, because of their unique mode of formation, the intellectual and affective behaviours that characterize the attachment toward one’s country and the first relations with foreign countries contain the initial traces of subsequent international non-adaptations. Then one should examine, even if the preceding point seems at first to be contradicted by the facts, why the child does not acquire during development a sufficient sense of objectivity and reciprocity enabling later resistance to tensions and non-adaptations that will influence him as an adolescent or an adult.
