Love Relationships

In this book, "love", which has been the inexhaustible subject treasure of artists and writers until now, extends to the divan of OF Kernberg, who is considered one of the living great masters of psychiatry. And what emerges is a rich scientific text in which all aspects of the love situations that we all experience and are helpless against are examined. Kernberg meticulously analyzed the cases he encountered in his long career and collected his conclusions in this book. Love is a unique life experience in which a person's physiological and psychological capacities flourish and strengthen in all aspects. When a person is in love the most, he pushes his own limits and his capacity to feel reaches its peak. States of love give us unique clues to understanding people. Why are people lively and generous when flirting? When he gets married, he becomes secretive and lazy, and when he separates, he becomes filled with hatred and envy to the point of saying "I will never be of use to anyone"? Kernberg searches for answers to such questions within the framework of normality and pathology in love states and finds provocative answers: In masochistic pathology, the obligation to experience pain, submission and humiliation in order to achieve sexual satisfaction is an unconscious punishment. In narcissistic personalities, sexual success satisfies the need for conquest, the unconscious process of devaluing the object of desire begins, and as a result, both sexual excitement and personal interest quickly disappear.

First the body of the Other in love, then the whole personality, and then the ethical, aesthetic and cultural value system are idealized. Love is the search for identity with the other at every level. According to Kernberg, the state of love is the abandonment of the boundaries of the self, until it reaches the distinction of subjectivity that has spread to the biological roots of existence... Love Relationships is not a book that will help you find love or protect yourself from it. For those trying to understand what happens after the "moment of blindness" passes and the feet touch the ground...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13x20

Number of Printings: 4th Edition

First Printing Year: 2006

Number of Pages: 274

Media Type: Paperback

Language Turkish

Original Name: Love Relations Normality and Pathology