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The mother–infant relationship is viewed through the lens of their primarily-bodily interaction. A conceptually organizing developmental line is used to describe movement from global/undifferentiated states, through greater differentiation, and on to integration of the differentiated units. Aspects of Mahler's work, and the current author's revisions and elaborations of that work, are drawn upon to...