The woman I love and the woman I cannot live without.
The relationship between love and the symbiotic phase of childhood is explored from a new angle in terms of a conflict between "the woman I love" and "the woman I cannot live without." Love requires dependency, but it can also lead to giving up independent existence; then it becomes inimical to the relationship.
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Martin S
MS
Bergmann
D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005114:Extramarital Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008149:Love; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology; D014930:Women