But of course crying is not only associated with the human need for attachment.
A psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, celebrated author, and gifted scholar, Ester explored the need for attachment and solitude as contradictory, yet fundamental routes to survival.
The difference is that in Segal's world, a world where domestic tragedies occur against the backdrop of historic human cruelty, people tend to behave badly not out of a perverted sense of ambition or power but from a deep need for attachment and belonging.
The film's spectators can empathize with the soldier's need for attachment and watch how the rituals of playing, sleeping, and eating that he shares with the leopard allow for the desert to become, for him, a new humanly meaningful "place," mediated through his relationship with the anthropomorphized leopard.
For depression, this shut-down of SEEKING, is our natural response to the violation of yet another fundamental human instinct: our built-in need for attachment.
It has been reported that the early germination of spores of Enteromorpha sp. requires attachment to a solid substratum, such as small sand particles and the thalli [1], and can then grow without the need for attachment to the substratum [15].
Other cell types were gradually eliminated because of their need for attachment to a surface.
The relaxed projecting head, oriented almost as needed for actin attachment, will attach, then release Pi followed by ADP, as the lever arm with a purely axial change in tilt drives ∼10 nm of actin filament sliding on the way to the nucleotide-free limit of its working stroke.
And even then we can only begin to draw conclusions about an attachment when the child's attachment system has been activated – something happens to create the need for an attachment figure to help out.
