Book Review: Psychoanalytic dialogues: Love, Heartbreak and Friendship Bonds in Contemporaneity

Abstract

This book addresses a universal theme: love as well as its counterpart, heartbreak and a bond derived from this affection that is friendship. Within the multiple possibilities to analyze this affect, this work addresses it from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective. There are 4 axes in which it is divided. The first is about love, heartbreak and social networks, the second section analyzes transference love from the clinical field: the clinic in the new / old social ties; The third section takes up the theme of violence and perversion in the love-heartbreak relationship, the fourth axis includes excess love: on maternal damage and the family relationship, a fifth section is on the paternal bond in contemporaneity, and finally it talks about the bond of friendship: permanence and changes in the XXI century.