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The need for continued research into the affinity for what is unalive is still an important task for students of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Edward S. Tauber (1981, p. 48).
THE CLINICAL STATE IN WHICH AN intolerance for uncertainty and independence is coupled with unalive affective expression has captured the attention of psychoanalytic writers. Tauber (1981), (1982), (1983) designated this clinical profile disordered affect. He hypothesized that this form of affective disturbance emanated from the "texture of the relatedness of mother and offspring, " and evolved along a temporal continuum (Tauber, 1981 p. 34).
Within certain offspring/mother pairs, the individual will experience interpersonal distress as a result of the mother's ambivalent emotional posture. This maternal ambivalence generates a fear of aloneness in the individual who is incapable of negotiating in the environment independently without the mother, as well as a countervailing desire to avoid the mother who triggers feelings of rejection and powerlessness with each new contact. The individual is thus caught in the maelstrom of contradictory desires. On the one hand, the individual wishes to remain within the secure haven provided by the mother, while on the other hand, the individual is