“Attachment is a word that has associations in English which do not quite give the Buddhist feeling for the meaning of the word. But the slang term that we now use—a hang up—is the right translation for attachment. When you say a person’s all hung up or he has a particular hang up, that is the Buddhist meaning of attachment. It means a mental fixation or an emotional fixation on some particular pattern of life.”
— Alan Watts, Human Consciousness
