Psychoanalysts understand that the love of a complex affective state and emotional experience is associated with the primary libidinal cathexis of the object. The feeling of love is characterized by elevated mood and euphoria, sometimes ecstasy, sometimes pain. Freud meant love as “the re-location of the object,” it can be viewed as an affective state of play [...]
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The issue that we wish to discuss here is a neurotic need for love. These are familiar to every therapist exaggerated needs in some patients for emotional attachment, a positive evaluation from others, their advice and support, as well as in an exaggerated suffering, if this requirement is not satisfied. However, what is the difference between [...]