Overattachment

Buried in overattachment and overinvolvement is an assumption of fragility, the belief that by not having some nuance of need met, the child will be irrevocably harmed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is interesting to observe that the danger of overattachment to the superconscious has been recognized more or less explicitly by many spiritual teachers of the past. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

He condemned romantic overattachment to the past, what he called the tying of India to the past "like a sacrificial goat tethered to a post," and he accused men who displayed it - they seemed to him reactionary - of not knowing what true political freedom was, pointing out that it is from English thinkers and ❋ Unknown (2001)

Keeping in mind that religious and literary restraints existed to prevent Owen's becoming a practicing homosexual, we may confirm his inverted development by identifying and documenting the following elements in turn: overattachment to the mother accompanied by estrangement from the father; narcissism; injustice-collecting; rejection of women; and transference of affection to male equivalents. ❋ Stallworthy, Jon (1976)