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Love Relations / Ramsay MacMullen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacMullen, Ramsay, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love.
- Object relations (Psychoanalysis).
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychology, Social.
- Emotions.
- Psychological Theory.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Object Attachment.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychology, Social.
- Emotions.
- Psychological Theory.
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
- Psychiatry and Psychology.
- Love.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Object Attachment.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1989]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dr. Otto Kernberg, the internationally renowned psychoanalytic theorist and clinician, here examines the success and failure of sexual love in couples, from adolescence to old age.Dr. Kernberg considers the two partners' conscious and unconscious emotional interactions and their unconsciously activated superego interactions. He also suggests that they establish a joint ego ideal as a couple, which plays an important role in the success of the relationship. And because the couple experiences love and sex in the context of the social environment, he studies the nature of relations between the couple and the group.After describing the biological and psychological determinants and elements of the sexual experience, Dr. Kernberg traces the nature of that experience over time in the light of object relations theory. He shows how the activation of unconscious, internalized object relations from the past triggers the most troubling conflicts and is also responsible for the most exciting aspects of a couple's love life. Throughout, Dr. Kernberg considers both so-called normal and pathological relationships, including the role of narcissism, masochism, and aggression in each. The result is a book that expands the boundaries of our current understanding of love relations.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. The Sexual Experience
- 2. Sexual Excitement and Erotic Desire
- 3. Mature Sexual Love
- 4. Love, Oedipus, and the Couple
- 5. Psychopathology
- 6. Aggression, Love, and the Couple
- 7. Superego Functions
- 8. Love in the Analytic Setting
- 9. Masochistic Pathology
- 10. Narcissism
- 11. Latency, Group Dynamics, and Conventionality
- 12. The Couple and the Group
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300159479
- 0300159471
- OCLC:
- 1024008802
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