Digitalization ab Incunabuiis: Sociocultural Conditions Underlying the Formation of Attachments in Infants Today

The development of cultural practices that create and promote human personality in emerging social-digital hybrid environment has become a new challenge. The article considers issues bearing upon present-day processes of digitalization and their impact on attachment relationship in a mother-child dyad at early stages of ontogenesis. The social situation of child development today can be described in terms of digital socialization. Meanwhile, there is a serious lack of scientific research studying conditions for digital socialization in post-natal ontogenesis. At this age, the foundation for further mental development is being created in keeping with cultural maturing. It encompasses adaptive capacity, the background for an attitude towards the self, outlines of relationships with others, speech development, emotional features, prerequisites for intelligence, mentalizing and reflective capacities. Collectively, these elements facilitate the differentiation and integration of external objective and internal subjective realities. The very progression of these functions at the early stages of development becomes a mechanism, a driver and a factor for further mental development and socialization in the years of childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The analysis of the digital technological world hazards results in setting the task to maintain the culture of humanity and to prevent anthropological degradation. As part and parcel of solving the problem it is necessary to maintain and to protect real warm and reciprocal relationships between Mother and Infant in the digital world that will ensure the basis for establishing a person’s attitudes towards the self, the others and the world.