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The first relationship of the human being with the external world is between his mouth and the mother's breast. This first relation related to the satisfaction of a need is at the base of the development of the first impulse, the oral impulse. In this article the author refers to psychoanalysts who develop a theorisation of the mother-baby relationship during feeding.