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Primary Love
The Elemental Nature of Human Love, Intimacy, and Attachment
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2010
Summary
In Primary Love, Dr. Klein describes love and intimacy as they evolve in the context of family relations from birth to maturity in adulthood. Once the original attachment and the loving, intimate bond between a mother and her infant-child are established, primary love is founded and secured. Every relationship of love and intimacy formed thereafter has - as its foundation, nature, and design - the original, pristine, loving relationship encountered in the very earliest period of life. When two adults form a mature, intimate relationship, it is the unconscious wish of both partners to recapture and claim the bliss and the ecstasy of primary love, nestled securely in a mother's loving and ministering arms. Dr. Klein's view of love and intimacy is that which is found in the ideal marriage and family, fully acknowledging that the pure and 'perfect' marriage and family does not exist. Yet, the 'perfectly' described nature of marriage and the family serves as an ideal toward which to strive, for the ideal provides the ultimate of pleasure and reward in the human encounter of love.
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Bibliographic data
Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5111-0
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5112-7
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction: This Thing We Call Love No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 1. Love and the Subjective World of the Infant No access Pages 7 - 15
Chapter 2. Love and Motherhood No access Pages 16 - 23
Chapter 3. Love and the Mutuality of Mother-Infant Experience No access Pages 24 - 31
Chapter 4. Love and Fatherhood No access Pages 32 - 41
Chapter 5. Love and Individuation: Differentiation and Integration in Toddlerhood No access Pages 42 - 50
Chapter 6. Love and the Family Triangle No access Pages 51 - 65
Chapter 7. Love and the Adolescent Experience No access Pages 66 - 85
Chapter 8. Falling in Love No access Pages 86 - 99
Chapter 9. The Mature Love and Sexuality of Adulthood No access Pages 100 - 112
Chapter 10. The Loss of a Loved One No access Pages 113 - 125
Chapter 11. Primary Love in Summary No access Pages 126 - 142
