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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyReparative Love

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: Reparative Love [In this chapter a Kleinian way of seeing love will be outlined. This develops Freud’s conceptualisation of love and allows us to look at the compelling nature of romance by reference to infancy and the object related character of human nature. Both Freud and Klein, as already stated, are modernist, humanist thinkers and their theories of love reflect this, but their work is also sensitive to, although it precedes, postmodern objections to the idea of a rationally integrated, unified self. Indeed the ethical nature of ideal-typical love, according to Freud and Klein, is a consequence of our accepting the fact that we are not always rational and can be split-off, fragmented and destructive. Thus, ideal-typical love has, according to Klein, a reparative urge or quality.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyReparative Love

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
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978-1-349-54459-2
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99 –117
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10.1057/9780230501515_6
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[In this chapter a Kleinian way of seeing love will be outlined. This develops Freud’s conceptualisation of love and allows us to look at the compelling nature of romance by reference to infancy and the object related character of human nature. Both Freud and Klein, as already stated, are modernist, humanist thinkers and their theories of love reflect this, but their work is also sensitive to, although it precedes, postmodern objections to the idea of a rationally integrated, unified self. Indeed the ethical nature of ideal-typical love, according to Freud and Klein, is a consequence of our accepting the fact that we are not always rational and can be split-off, fragmented and destructive. Thus, ideal-typical love has, according to Klein, a reparative urge or quality.]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Romantic Love; Transitional Object; Intolerable Frustration; Kleinian Theory; Depressive Position

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