Love and its Vicissitudes by Andr Green, Gregorio Kohon - 9781583917459

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Love and its VicissitudesAuthor(s): Andr Green, Gregorio Kohon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Brunner-Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781583917459, 978-1583917459\nSynopsis\nIn Love and its Vicissitudes Andr Green and Gregorio Kohon draw on their extensive clinical experience to produce an insightful contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding of love.\n\nIn Part I, 'To Love or Not to Love - Eros and Eris', Andr Green addresses some important questions: What is essential to love in life? What, in the psychoanalytic method, is related to it? Should we understand love by referring to its earliest and most primitive roots? Or should we take as our starting point the experience of the adult? He argues that while science has made no contribution to our understanding of love, art, literature and especially poetry are the best introduction to it. In Part II, Love in the Time of Madness, Gregorio Kohon provides a detailed clinical study of an indi.