Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): January - June 2020
Research hypotheses

The nature of love between objectivity and subjectivity.: A research proposal from a neurophenomenological perspective.

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  • Lucia Luciana Mosca,
  • Francesco Marino,
  • Fulvio Cassese,
  • Flora Vitale,
  • Salvatore Di Donna,
  • Maria Zeccato,
  • Daniela Costa
Lucia Luciana Mosca
Sipgi Scuola di psicoterapia gestaltico integrata
Francesco Marino
SIPGI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32069/pj.2020.1.81

Published 2020-06-05

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Mosca, L. L., Marino, F., Cassese, F., Vitale, F., Di Donna, S., Zeccato, M., & Costa, D. (2020). The nature of love between objectivity and subjectivity.: A research proposal from a neurophenomenological perspective. Phenomena Journal - International Journal of Psychopathology, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy, 2(1), 121–128. https://doi.org/10.32069/pj.2020.1.81
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Abstract

Love is an omnipresent phenomenon in the human existence, a central experience that crosses all phases of the life in different ways and it defines itself as the true infrastructure of the human being, creating a field in which the different subjectivities can be identified by growing together. However, what is love? Is it really like Platone says in the myth, a reunion with the other half lost in the world or, as Freud says, is a renunciation of a part of love for the self? But, perhaps, the most interesting and least explored question is: what are the paths of love’s expression? How do we love?It is necessary to arrive to an empirical study about love, focused on romantic love, which contemplates its complexity and that can understand the dialectic between the intrapsychic and the interpsychic elements, using study parameters that go beyond the prevalent perspective. So, our study is based on the analysis of the subjective experience of love according to the neurophenomenological methodology.

Keywords: love, neurophenomenology, subjectivity.

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