The Monkey and the Doll
It does not ask whether the replacement is adequate, real, or socially valid.It asks only one question:Does this feel like safety?If the answer is yes, even faintly, attachement forms.The monkey does not misunderstand reality.He reorganizes it.The doll is not his mother biologically, but neurologically it functions as one:something soft, stable, holdable, constant.In the absence of…