Psychoanalysis Listening to Love

Auteur

Simonetta Diena

Texte du rabat

This book is about love, about how we fall in love and why we fall in love, and about how much we suffer if unable to love or be loved. The need to love and be loved can be read as the prototype of every human need and every relationship between human beings.

Contenu

One: Theoretical psychoanalytical contributions; Two: Ways of seeing: the role of vision; Three: Nostalgia, or "something to love" ; Four: The unbearableness of being abandoned ; Five: Fatal love; Six: Transference love: "There really was absolutely nothing to be done..."; Seven: Maternal love: "Flowing-over-at-oneness" (F. Tustin); Eight: Love in old age; Nine: Making choices; not making choices; Ten: Incapacity to love; Eleven: The homosexual universe and physical perfection; Twelve: Love on the silver screen; Conclusions