Riemann, Fritz
Die Fähigkeit zu lieben
Mit einem Geleitwort von Hans Jellouschek8. Auflage 2008. 139 Seiten.
(ISBN 978-3-497-01901-4) kt
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Fritz Riemann
publication date: January 2008
139 pp, paperback
List price: approx. € 12,90
978-3-497-01901-4
About the book
The ability to love is not something to be taken for granted. Throughout our whole lifetime, we have to learn how. The love that we received from our mother and father exerts a great influence: experiencing loving care, security, and respect for our individuality helps us later to bring trust, affection, a feeling of responsibility and also tolerance into relationships with our partners. If there are elements lacking in parental love, the child will not learn certain aspects of the aptitude for love, and then the experience of sexuality, the ability to establish contact and independence within a relationship, can atrophy.
Subjects include
On the ability to love
Parental love
Love and commitment – unconditional love
Demanding love
Whole love
Choice of partner
Unattached love
Fear – an obstacle to love
Target group
Lovers, those in love, and those who would like to be.
The author
After studying psychology and training as a psychoanalyst, Fritz Riemann (1902-1979) became one of the founders of the Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Munich (today, Academy for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). He was lecturer and teaching analyst and had his own psychotherapeutic practice.
The ability to love
With a preface by Hans Jellouschek
(Die Fähigkeit zu lieben)
publication date: January 2008
139 pp, paperback
List price: approx. € 12,90
978-3-497-01901-4
About the book
The ability to love is not something to be taken for granted. Throughout our whole lifetime, we have to learn how. The love that we received from our mother and father exerts a great influence: experiencing loving care, security, and respect for our individuality helps us later to bring trust, affection, a feeling of responsibility and also tolerance into relationships with our partners. If there are elements lacking in parental love, the child will not learn certain aspects of the aptitude for love, and then the experience of sexuality, the ability to establish contact and independence within a relationship, can atrophy.
Fritz Riemann analyzes the various types of love:
- unconditional love, when needs are met selflessly
- demanding love, that fights fear of loss by striving for power
- whole love, that recognizes gender and gender roles
- unattached love, that arises from lack of bonding and affection
He shows how these forms of love can affect sexuality, choice of partner and how one lives with others.
Subjects include
On the ability to love
Parental love
Love and commitment – unconditional love
Demanding love
Whole love
Choice of partner
Unattached love
Fear – an obstacle to love
Target group
Lovers, those in love, and those who would like to be.
The author
After studying psychology and training as a psychoanalyst, Fritz Riemann (1902-1979) became one of the founders of the Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy in Munich (today, Academy for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy). He was lecturer and teaching analyst and had his own psychotherapeutic practice.