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Guarton, G.B. (1999). Beyond the Dialectics of Love and Desire. Contemp. Psychoanal., 35:491-505.

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(1999). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 35:491-505

Beyond the Dialectics of Love and Desire

Gladys Branly Guarton, Ph.D. Author Information

IN CONTRAST WITH THE STRUCTURAL, materialistic tradition, post-structural psychoanalytic theories increasingly view the individual as equally and fundamentally structured and unstructured, separate and related, assertive and receptive, and emphasize the freedom to experience and to transcend models of reality and “truth” as both a primary psychoanalytic technique and a central goal for the patient. Consequently, the end of psychoanalysis could not exclusively coincide with the patient's receptivity to rational truth, conceptualized as mature love, as Freud asserted, or with the patient's discovery of his or her separate voice and desire, as theories intended to treat the preoedipal individual have stated. This article explores how the self's free or genuine expression of either side of the duality implies the ability to experience and express the other; and, conversely, how holding on to only one side (i.e., separatedness or relatedness) implies compulsive defensiveness a

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