Bajo el signo del vínculo

Synopsis of Bajo el signo del vínculo

In 'Under the Sign of the Bond', Boris Cyrulnik explores the importance of affective and care bonds in the survival and procreation of living beings. It analyzes how these bonds work, the messages and signals that create them, from relationships between parents and children to attraction between sexes. Cyrulnik examines the signals that found the bond with the mother, such as the mechanism of the smile, and the cooperation between biochemical signals and language. In addition, it addresses the human need to create bonds with strangers to avoid incest and how we unconsciously recreate the system of signals that sustains our family bonds. This book is an exploration of the secrets of our behavior and the complex system of signs and signals that characterize it.