Publisher's Synopsis
Where do we fall in love? Evolutionary psychologists have a ready description: they tell us that we fall into a pool of natural amphetamines in our brains. These hormonal processes make us make us feel exhilarated, speeded up. For psychoanalysts, however, the question is much more difficult to answer.;What are the differences between narcissistic love and affectionate love? What are the contrasts between sexual instinctual relations and ego relations? Are all human beings by nature bisexual? How did one type of female homosexual end up the only type in psychoanalytic literature?;These are some of the questions that this work explores. It traces the mystery of love to its sources focusing on the subject from a psychoanlaytical perspective. In these writings the author recoceptualizes psychoanalytical theory of instinctual drives and object relations. Among a wide range of issues, she considers sexual identity and gender theory along with character theory. These essays continue the investigation of love that she began with her previous co-authored book "Cherishment: Psychology of the Heart".
