Love and its VicissitudesRoutledge, 01.02.2006 - 128 Seiten In Love and its Vicissitudes André Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love. In Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', André Green addresses some important questions: What is essential to love in life? What, in the psychoanalytic method, is related to it? Should we understand love by referring to its earliest and most primitive roots? Or should we take as our starting point the experience of the adult? He argues that while science has made no contribution to our understanding of love, art, literature and especially poetry are the best introduction to it. In Part II, Love in the Time of Madness, Gregorio Kohon provides a detailed clinical study of an individual suffering a psychotic breakdown. He describes how the exclusive as well as the intense lasting dependence to a primary carer create the conditions for a "normal madness" to develop. This is not only at the source of later psychotic states and the perversions but also at the origin of all forms of love, as demonstrated in its re-appearance in the situation of transference. Love and its Vicissitudes moves beyond conventional psychoanalytic discourse to provide a stimulating and revealing reflection on the place of love in psychoanalytic theory and practice. |
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... passion from sexual desire , at - one- ness , dissolution , loss , destruction , death , regeneration , madness - all compounded in that one simple word - Love . Each author engages with the mad - making contradictions of Eros and Foreword.
... passion ' and ' madness ' . The nature of passion is predominantly the preserve of the first part , and of mad- ness the second . There are a great many common threads which constantly weave between the two . For each author , to think ...
... passion , speaks with an immediacy and with a kind of melancholy ferociousness to the heart of what Green has been say- ing and to what much psychoanalytic theorising has found it hard to keep a grip of . The sweep of Green's critique ...
... passion and destruction , of fusional unity and dislocation , is framed and contained by the poem's structure , rhythm and language , a similar evocation is framed and contained in the account of Tony's treatment ( to the extent that ...
... passion and madness immanent in Love . At the same time , both of them contest the limitations of those theories that either stress the non - sexualised exclusiveness of such a couple , or draw on it as a primary model for the ...
Inhalt
ANDRÉ GREEN | 14 |
PART II | 41 |
The heroic achievement of sanity | 62 |
Between the fear of madness and the need to be mad | 84 |