Introductory Lectures on Neuropsychoanalysis/Psychotherapy: Lecture Three, Part 2 " How the Mind Develops" Freud's Oral Stage Continued

Again, the infant in the first year or so of life has a beginning ego, but this ego is feeble. It is not yet prepared to handle the seven basic emotional needs of the id, and to meet them appropriately. Freud believed  the early ego omnipotently hallucinates what it needs and creates the delusion that it has it ( Solms). Melanie Klein referred to this phase as the paranoid/schizoid position. Freud understood this type of thinking and experiencing as the Primary Process. He further  spoke of this as the stage of narcissism.   

Again, the major need that most demands to be met at this time is PANIC/GRIEF (felt when Attachment needs are not met). The unpleasure of not being securely attached is also equally painful to not being able to take in nourishment through the mouth. The infant develops its attachment figure in the first six months of life (Solms). If there is a good enough attachment, the infant will usually do well and move on through the later developmental stages. If the infant is not able to sufficiently attach to the attachment figure, its attachment need will not get met and the infant will experience PANIC\GRIEF.  Adult patients who present with  the unpleasant feeling of PANIC/GRIEF, often did not get their attachment need met sufficiently at this stage.