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I think that in large part being in love is an effort to recover (or recapitulate) the relationship that the very young child had with his parents. (I am referring here to the initial stages of being in love, perhaps often better described as infatuation.)

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So making a major assumption here that this statement is in fact true. Would a child who did not experience this earlier parental love have difficultly participating in the erotic love later in life?

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I think the "very young" child always experienced this earlier "parental" love in that they were fed/sucked from the breast/bottle and had their diapers changed and were held enough to not die. When one is "hungry" one loves the person that feeds/cares for them. It's built in, not "thought" about and decided on. I think that is what this author was pointing out, that later on that is recreated in the T "feeding" and caring for us psychologically/emotionally?