Summary
In
this brilliant book, Jonathan Lear argues that Freud posits love as
a basic force in nature, one that makes individuation -- the
condition for psychological health and development -- possible.
Love is active not just in the development of the individual but
also in individual analysis and indeed in the development of
psychoanalysis itself, says Lear. Expanding on philosophical
conceptions of love, nature, and mind, Lear shows that love can
cure because it is the force that makes us
human.
