Functions: Emotional regulation / Organization of individual life experiences / A basis for cognitive attention control (e.g., focus on exploration or closeness)
„... an affectional bond, (...) an attachment figure is never wholly interchangeable (...) In attachment there is a need to maintain proximity / distress upon inexplicable separation / pleasure or joy upon reunion / grief at loss
Attachment as the bond with an attachment figure (What is not a part of it))