The infant's attachment to the mother's breast is first an attachment to Life in its immediate form, in its generality and its immanence; the rejection of weaning is the rejection of the abandonment to which the individual is condemned once he is separated from the Whole; from then on, and as he becomes more individualized and separated, the taste he retains for the mother's flesh now torn from his own can be termed 'sexual'; his sensuality is thus mediated, it has become transcendence to ward a foreign object.