Le Run, Jean-Louis <br/><br/>
Childhood Loyalty and Loyalty Conflicts: Important Clinical Concepts? The Example of Adoption 

 -  2013.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This paper starts by reviewing the literature in which the notions of loyalty and conflict (I. Boszormenyi-Nagy) are treated as a recurrent dramatic means. Then, it examines how these contextual concepts can be used in psychoanalytical interpretation and subjectively understood in child and adolescent development. The premises of loyalty are particularly visible in D. W. Winnicott’s “solicitude stage.” This paper discusses how loyalties and conflicts play a part in adoptions. It concludes by stressing the need to analyze vertical loyalties in order to understand horizontal loyalties.