Often neglected children do not receive the critical building blocks of healthy attachment necessary to love and care for other people and to trust that people will care for them.
Death and misery have become a joke to the Coens because the people in their films are no longer worth their emotional attachment; they used to love these people, now they just love to laugh at the futility of their petty existence.
Second, is to let go of your attachment to your loved one and your accompanying grief.
I wonder how many of us allow ourselves to suffer, being held in emotional bondage (or better said, emotional blackmail) by others, not because of their demands, but because of our own attachment to being loved and fear of rejection or disapproval.
In a psychoanalytic setting, for example, such an act may occur when a patient finally abandons his attachment to a love object modeled on what his parents would have wished for him, to a particular career path valued by others in his life, or to the analysis itself (whose ending, in Lacanian psychoanalysis, is not contractually decided in advance).
Children's attachment to those they love (including their parents) can therefore be a source of autonomy.
Likewise his attachment to old stories — love, death, the grand design.
Characterised by a deep sincerity, a single eye, an attachment to reality, a love of humanity and the townscapes of his Midland home... Poet of the Prosaic".
And if we surrendered our attachments to peace, love and being chill, why would any rich, white tourist ever want to come and idle around on our beautiful, gated beach resorts?
With a voice full of classic country slides and breaks, he often sings about loyalty and attachment: to a woman he loves or to a woman who left him that he can't forget.
