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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyTransference Love

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: Transference Love [What is the view of love that we find in Freud? Is it a type of neurosis? A play of glands? A mirror in which we do not see beyond our own reflection? A furious master? What has happened to ‘love in the age of psychoanalysis’? Freud said that he was wary of raising the psychoanalytic flag over the category of ‘normal’ love and intruding upon the territory of poets (see Bergmann, 1987), but this is exactly what psychoanalysis has done in the field of so-called normal and pathological love relations. The subject of love is perhaps most commonly thought about as a subject of romance, but what psychoanalysis offers us, according to Phillips (1994), is the ‘romance of disillusionment’ (p. 40). This does not mean that psychoanalysis counsels us in cynicism; this would indeed be antithetical to its aims.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyTransference 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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74 –98
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10.1057/9780230501515_5
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[What is the view of love that we find in Freud? Is it a type of neurosis? A play of glands? A mirror in which we do not see beyond our own reflection? A furious master? What has happened to ‘love in the age of psychoanalysis’? Freud said that he was wary of raising the psychoanalytic flag over the category of ‘normal’ love and intruding upon the territory of poets (see Bergmann, 1987), but this is exactly what psychoanalysis has done in the field of so-called normal and pathological love relations. The subject of love is perhaps most commonly thought about as a subject of romance, but what psychoanalysis offers us, according to Phillips (1994), is the ‘romance of disillusionment’ (p. 40). This does not mean that psychoanalysis counsels us in cynicism; this would indeed be antithetical to its aims.]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Romantic Love; Oedipus Complex; Pleasure Principle; Unconscious Mind; Narcissistic Wound

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