AboutAlan Auerbach Expertise Taught psychology for 30 years, authored four textbooks. Specialize in introductory and industrial/organizational psychology, but will tackle wider range of areas.
Expert: Alan Auerbach Date: 7/24/2005 Subject: is there such a thingas ronmantic...
Question is there such a thingas ronmantic olove or is it all based on trasnference?
are there any personality types (social pobia sufferers etc or narcissitst a thta are incapable of love and
/or peopel ingeneral who should not wait to fall in love and hold out fo true lovek, but rather allow themeselves to amrry anfd then gorw to love someoen else?
Answer Yom,
There is such a thing -- for people brought up in a culture that teaches that there is. Transference is a totally separate thing (a phenomenon within the psychoanalytic process) that has nothing to do with it.
Yes, but not just a matter of personality. Because love is a learned emotion, there are those who learned not to love.
That depends, because there are no absolutes. If their culture teaches them that they should first marry and then establish a relationship with their spouse, then that is what they should do. But if they have been taught, and have come to believe, that first you fall in love and then marry, then that is the correct sequence for them.
Hope that answers your interesting question, and thanks for asking us.
