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James Jones extends attachment theory to religion ...

"If our psychology is inherently relational, it is not antipsychological to see reality as interrelated.  If there is no escaping dependency on a self-object milieu, there is nothing childish about acknowledging connection to a self-sustaining universal matrix.  If selves necessarily stand in relation, it is not necessarily irrational to ask if this complex of selves in relation does not itself stand in relation." 

From Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Religion