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 related to love and its psychoanalytic implications. 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.
Key Features
- Clinical Insights: Draws from extensive clinical experience.
- Two-Part Structure: Includes contributions from both André Green and Gregorio Kohon.
- Exploration of Love: Examines the psychoanalytic understanding of love's essential nature.
- Art and Literature's Role: Highlights the significance of art, literature, and poetry in understanding love.
Additional Information
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 on a primary carer creates the conditions for a "normal madness" to develop. This is not only at the source of later psychotic states and 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.
