By comparison, Klein’s theory suggests newborns have a sense of awareness from the very beginning with the primary object, and newborns enter the world with fixed patterns of aggression and anxiety whereas, Mahler propose that a baby enters world unresponsive to external stimuli, because attachment is not operative for at least one month (Goldstein, 1995). It appears that Winnicott’s theory on hold, also share substance to Mahler’s autistic and symbiotic stage, that is, at first, the infant does not integrate self with primary object, but gradually the infant becomes aware and associate self with primary object (Goldstein, 1995).
