One-Person and Two-Person Conceptions of Attachment and Their Implications for
Psychoanalytic Thought
Through my research, I have researched several different ways of trying to answer the question raised from George Orwell's 1984. From my research, I have discovered that a person can become attached to something resulting in one of three different types of attachment. The first type of attachment is a secure attachment. This is where the attachment helps to benefit the person who is attached. Another type of attachment, that I researched, is avoidant attachment where a person tries to avoid what he or she is attached to. Also, another type of attachment is ambivalent attachment where a person hates what he or she is attached to. These classifications were concluded from the Paul Watchel article, "One-Person and Two-Person Conceptions of Attachment and Their Implications for Psychoanalytic Thought".