# Attachment

- Id: `attachment`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/attachment/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `66d6abb374073e7be5142f6ae78ad3f523f1e2cea1c4fa6426d65122cc40bcf0`

## Summary

Attachment becomes problematic when it turns a bond or good into a demand for possession and fear of loss.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 355 passages across 66 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Nicomachean Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:yoda.film_dialogue:rots.000.004",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus:12",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-41"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "attachement",
    "attachment",
    "fear of loss",
    "peur de perdre"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 66,
    "passages": 355,
    "thinkers": 25,
    "traditions": 13
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
        "name": "Epicureanism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "fiction",
        "name": "Fictional Jedi tradition",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/fictional-jedi-tradition/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_authored",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
        "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.nicomachean_ethics",
        "title": "Nicomachean Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.dhammapada",
        "title": "Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/dhammapada/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.digha_nikaya",
        "title": "Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/digha-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.samyutta_nikaya",
        "title": "Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/samyutta-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.sutta_nipata",
        "title": "Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in Verse",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/sutta-nipata/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.academica",
        "title": "Academica",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/academica/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_atticus",
        "title": "Letters to Atticus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-atticus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_friends",
        "title": "Letters to Friends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-friends/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.letters_to_quintus",
        "title": "Letters to Quintus",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/letters-to-quintus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_amicitia",
        "title": "On Friendship",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-amicitia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.philippics",
        "title": "Philippics",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/philippics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "diogenes.laertius_book6",
        "title": "Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI: The Cynics, by Diogenes Laertius",
        "author": "Diogenes Laertius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/diogenes-laertius/laertius-book6/"
    },
    {
        "id": "einstein.born_letters",
        "title": "The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s Letters",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/born-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.answers_to_objections",
        "title": "Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/answers-to-objections/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.talbot_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.montagu_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/montagu-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.vesey_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/vesey-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.miscellaneous_prose",
        "title": "Miscellaneous Prose by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/miscellaneous-prose/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.fragments",
        "title": "Surviving Fragments of Epicurus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.collected_papers_analytical_psychology",
        "title": "Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/collected-papers-analytical-psychology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
        "author": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.cratylus",
        "title": "Cratylus",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/cratylus/"
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        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
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    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lysis",
        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.protagoras",
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/protagoras/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
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    },
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        "id": "seneca.de_beneficiis",
        "title": "On Benefits",
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    },
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        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
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    },
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        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-memorabilia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-oeconomicus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.ethics_fr",
        "title": "Ethics, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/ethics-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.short_treatise_fr",
        "title": "Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, French Manifestation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/short-treatise-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "spinoza.emendation_fr",
        "title": "Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, Émile Saisset’s French Translation",
        "author": "Baruch Spinoza",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/emendation-fr/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    },
    {
        "id": "yoda.film_dialogue",
        "title": "Yoda’s Dialogue in the Star Wars Films",
        "author": "Yoda",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/yoda/film-dialogue/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.edited_talbot",
        "title": "The Works of the Late Miss Catharine Talbot, an Editorial Volume Associated with Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Catharine Talbot",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/catharine-talbot/edited-talbot/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.epictetus_translation",
        "title": "The Works of Epictetus, Translated into English by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/epictetus-translation/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.translated_crousaz",
        "title": "Jean-Pierre de Crousaz’s Examination of Mr. Pope’s Essay on Man, Translated by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Jean-Pierre de Crousaz",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jean-pierre-de-crousaz/translated-crousaz/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.old_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: Old Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-old-testament/"
    }
]
```