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In this paper we discuss personality development as part of a complex transaction of two fundamental developmental lines—an anaclitic developmental line leading to the establishment of satisfying, intimate interpersonal relationships, and an introjective developmental line leading to a stable, realistic, and essentially positive identity. These two developmental lines normally develop as a complex dialectical process. Development in either line is contingent upon this dialectical interaction; the development