Psychoanalysis finds it hard to deal with love. Love is understood as a danger for the analytical process, which just as fear threatens the therapeutic process by deceitful camouflage. In this fear it is too often overlooked that love is not the danger but how resistance uses it, how a pathological organization misuses it for its purposes. The acceptance of transference love is undoubtedly fraught with risks but the equating of transference love with resistance/pathological organization makes it impossible for the ability to love to unfold; in the entanglement there is the threat of seduction and thus destruction of the analytical space; too great a distancing leads to a stalemate through wounding and shame. Love must be given space so that it can show itself and unfold; it must become into the analytical process. The analyst is involved in this becoming: in an interpsychic dynamic love will appear momentarily like a formation of its own, in which a historical, biographical reality and individual truth of the patient is revealed, although it is a creation of the pair. The complexity of this dynamic is illustrated with a detailed case study describing the process from the initial scene to the Oedipal dissolution.
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