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The individual experiences its first sense of being a person in his or her own right through the emotional interchange with the caregiver. The infant is not merely passive at the breast. As Sutherland (1994a) emphasizes, the independently operating self also contributes an essential dynamic to regulating the feeding process and in a sense trains its mother in their relationship. Furthermore, if the mother is unattuned to the infant's relational needs, the infant desperately protests. Contemporary Developments in Object Relations Theory 19 Spitz's (1965) findings illustrated that meeting the infant's material needs often did not keep the infant alive.
For Bien, the conflict of relating or not relating to reality is manifested in the issue of having or not having consciousness. The tendency not to have consciousness is taken to the extreme by the psychotic part of the personality. Bion's unique contribution is his close study of the operation the psychotic part of the personality utilizes to destroy consciousness of reality. ATTACKS ON THE PERCEPTUAL APPARATUS Bion noted that the severe borderline and psychotic patients he treated often had a violent hatred of reality.
Frustration is felt to be rejection and impedes the infant's capacity to tolerate separation. In forced splitting, the infant denies its need to be loved. This can only be because its need to be loved has not been satisfactorily fulfilled. Therefore the infant rejects the promise of love, because it expects it to be tantalizing but not ultimately satisfying. Attacks on linking are also a way that the infant protects itself from disappointment by a disappointing object. Breasts and penises are not only part objects but also linking organs to whole objects.