Sitting With Eros and Psyche on a Buddhist Psychoanalyst's Cushion |
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| Authors: | Harriet Kimble Wrye PhD ABPP |
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| Institution: | 1. Co‐Chair, Relational Orientation, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis , New York University , 127 West 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024;2. Faculty and Supervisor, Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis , National Institute for the Psychotherapies |
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| Abstract: | This paper's psychoanalytic view of love rests on the assumption that adult erotic life has its origins in the early mother/baby sensual/relational matrix. Under optimal conditions, erotic sensuality is enlivened by developing capacity for empathy so that passionate pleasure involves mutuality and intersubjective attunement compatible with Buddhist views of interbeing and compassion. |
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