Where Do We Fall When We Fall in Love?

by YOUNG-BRUEHL, ELIZABETH

• ISBN13: 9781590510681
• ISBN10: 1590510682
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Other Press

Summary

Where do we fall when we fall in love? For psychoanalysts this is a difficult question 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 subjects that Elisabeth Young-Bruehl explores in her upcoming collection of essays. She traces the mystery of love to its sources, bringing her expertise as a philosopher and a writer to focus on the subject from a psychoanalytic perspective. In these new writings, many of them publsihed for the first time in this volume, the author reconceptualizes 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.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Ph.D., is the awardwinning author of many books She has a private practice in psychoanalysis in New York City

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Cherishment Psychology
1. Where Do We Fall When We Fall in Love?	3	(20)
2. Cherishment Culture	23	(22)
(coauthored with Faith Bethelard)
3. The Hidden History of the Ego Instincts	45	(30)
(coauthored with Faith Bethelard)
4. The Wise Baby as the Voice of the True Self	75	(24)
(coauthored with Faith Bethelard)
5. A Developmental Matrix for the Ego Ideal	99	(30)
6. A Visit to the Budapest School	129	(28)
Part II Sexual and Gender Identity
7. Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis	157	(22)
8. Are Human Beings "By Nature" Bisexual?	179	(34)
9. Beyond "The Female Homosexual"	213	(36)
Part III Character Theory and Its Applications
10. The Characters of Violence	249	(22)
11. Homophobias: A Diagnostic and Political Manual	271	(14)
12. Psychoanalysis and Characterology	285	(26)
13. Amae in Ancient Greece	311	(18)
(coauthored with Joseph Russo)
Index	329