The analyst's very practice emphasizes, exploits the automatic aspect of love. Regularly, in the analytic situation, this love called transference emerges. What psychoanalysis contributes to the problematic of love is precisely this notion of love's automatic aspect. To be loved, it is enough to be an analyst. There is an aspect of contingency in love.
Love depends on chance meetings.
The great discoveries of psychoanalysis concerning love are from this register. Analysis allows a subject to close in on what makes him fall in love and what makes him desire. Central to Freud's studies on the psychology of love is the determination, in almost mathematical formulas, of certain subjects' condition of love, for example, for a man to be able to desire only someone else's wife. Thus come the effects of jealousy the subject suffers, which analysis reveals are part of the woman's charm itself, and a determinant of the unconscious status of her charm. Liebe is a term which overlays both love and desire, although occasionally we see the conditions of love separated from those of sexual desire.