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Abstrakt
This article is an attempt to show the life-giving meaning of touch in the attachment relationship. Touch is the most original way of communication and a transmitter of feelings between a guardian and child. Depending on the type, quantity and quality of tactile stimuli delivered to a child - it brings life and development or stagnation and destruction. Its long-term lack may also contribute to death of a child.
In order to introduce the multidimensional meaning of touch in the attachment relationship, the author first described the process of development and the structure of the sense of touch. Then she showed the importance of tactile stimuli in the attachment relationship for biological survival of a child and its physical and mental development. In the further part of the article a topic of the meaning of touch in the attachment relationship in the process of shaping the integrated identity of a child as a corporeal being, that is, the body self, was taken up. Also, subsequent steps of this complex and systemic process were introduced.