On Hate in Love Relationships

The Narcissism of Minor Differences Revisited

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9233516
AutoresGlen O Gabbard (The Menninger Clinic, Box 829, Topeka, KS 66601-0829, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume62
Fascículo2
Páginas229-238
Data de publicação1993-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21674086.1993.11927376
PMID8502728
OpenAlexW200250781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas4

Among the many reasons that feelings of hate develop in love relationships is the need to find and to exaggerate differences in order to maintain a sense of separateness. Freud's notion of the "narcissism of minor differences" provides a framework within which to understand this need to find disappointing differences in one's beloved. Developmental antecedents of this concern about defining and preserving one's separateness can be identified in both oedipal and preoedipal periods

Feeling · Humanities · Love and hate · Minor (academic) · Narcissism · Oedipus complex · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology