Romantic Love As Transference Neurosis

They tell us

that our love

is transference neurosis.


TRANSFERENCE

Transference Neurosis.

The core of neurosis.


That our battle

as it develops

is

Resistance.


Resistance.


That our love

and the battle that ensues

is resistance

to letting go

of the pleasures of infantile

mental experience.


Their goal

is to cure us.



This is one of a series of audio poems I wrote on love and relationship in May of 1998. Each poem makes reference to a psychological, psychoanalytic, existential or spiritual theory. This particular poem points to Freud's theory of transference resistance. Other poems in the series touch on "Empathy", "Romantic Love", "Ego Strength", "I-Thou", and "Support Groups"

These poems appear in the published hardcover and electronic editions of "Poems from InnerRESOURCES 8 Ideas". You can find them at Authors Den, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.

If you would like, you can download a multimedia (audio/video/text) quicktime file of this poem at the link below

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Jeff Landau
InnerRESOURCES Publications
www.innerResources.org