The child’s native need for the reduction of his hunger drive becomes quickly associated with two essential and interrelated components of his food-intake sequence: to suck and to be near the nursing person. Because of its constant repetition and powerful association with the goal-directed response, the instrumental act of sucking rapidly becomes an ingrained habit and an independent drive which gets stronger with age as long as it remains the primary means for pacifying hunger. The mother is seen as an indispensable part of the activity of sucking and the intake of all food. Her image, smell, feel, etc. are closely associated with gratification. The child “not only learns to expect her to come when [he is ] hungry, he also learns that he needs her”. It is this link between the desire for food and the mother which is essential to this phase of development, but is a potential deterrent to development in later phases of socialization. The mother bringing food, then fosters a dyadic relationship and simultaneously reinforces dependency on herself as the caring adult.