Title: Love and its place in nature : a philosophical interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis /
Authors: Lear, Jonathan
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Love; Psychoanalysis Philosophy
Abstract: In this brilliant book, Jonathan Lear argues that Freud posits love as a basic force in nature, one that makes individuation - the condition necessary for psychological health and development - possible. Love is active not just in the development of the individual but also in individual analysis and indeed in the development of psychoanalysis itself. Expanding on philosophical conceptions of love, nature, and mind, Lear shows that love can cure because it is the force that makes us human. -- from back cover.
Contents: Introduction -- Catharsis : fantasy and reality -- The interpretation of dreams -- Interpretation and transformation : the case of Little Hans -- What is sex? -- Where it was, there I shall become -- Radical evaluation.