Love and Its Place in Nature

Download or read book Love and Its Place in Nature written by Jonathan Lear and published by Diane Books Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is at once a passionate and a rigorously argued exploration of the value of psychoanalysis, the nature of the individual, and the power of love. Freud was not the first to consider the nature of the individual, but the method of inquiry he crafted and the developmental force he uncovered began a scientific revolution that is still in progress. Chapters: catharsis: fantasy and reality; the interpretation of dreams; what is sex? Beginning where Freud left off, Lear shows that love, the force that makes us human, is active not just in the development of the individual but also in individual analysis and in the development of psychoanalysis.