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Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise

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OLIVEIRA, Alda Regina Dorneles. Primitive love, true love. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2007, vol.41, n.4, pp. 89-102. ISSN 0486-641X.

Inspired on Bion’s ideas regarding the being - the ultimate reality, as something which is not a mental phenomenon and which Bion represents in written form by the symbol O -,the author proposes that in the beginning of life human beings are love, and along their vital cycle, they may develop the capacity of loving. She reflects on that capacity, as well on those about depending and losing, observing two basic ways of loving, calling them primitive and true ways of loving, respectively. She presents the theme discussing both ways and the capacity of loving in its origins, using the theoretical conceptions of Bion, Meltzer e Winnicott. The theme is illustrated by the films Sylvia, by Christine Jeffs, and The Sea Inside, by Alejandro Amenábar. Finally, the author establishes a parallel with the analytical work, especially by the end of it, when analyst and patient need to elaborate the closure of the real encounters, and she ends up quoting a dialogue of love between Rosemary and P.A., characters created by Bion in A Memoir of the Future 2: The Past Presented.

Keywords : Ways of loving; Primitive love; True love; Loving capacity; Analytical process.

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