ABSTRACT
The healthy adult has all the immaturities to fall back upon either for fun or in time of need, or in secret auto-erotic experience or in dreaming. To do justice to the concept of ‘maturity at age' one would need to re-state the whole theory of emotional development. Maternal care becomes parental care, the two parents together taking responsibility for their infant, and for the relationship between their infants and their children. Moreover, the parents are there to receive the ‘contributing in' which comes from the healthy children in the family. In the healthy development of the individual, at whatever stage, what is needed is a steady progression, that is to say, a well-graduated series of defiant iconoclastic actions, each in the series being compatible with the retention of an unconscious bond with the central figures or figure, the parents or the mother.
