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Couple Relations
In this book, Mary Morgan provides a comprehensive understanding of couple relations.
Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being part of a between being an individual and a couple, relating, non-relating, and the narcissistic problem in tolerating the otherness and alienness of one’s partner. She guides the reader through managing feelings of both separateness and intimacy, issues around sex and sexuality, the tension between love and hate, and the importance of curiosity. She also elucidates key discoveries of unconscious processes in a couple relationship made by couple psychoanalysts, including unconscious choice of partner, the couple projective system, shared unconscious phantasy and beliefs, unconscious alliances, the couple’s own transference relationship and how the real "presence" of an other is seen as an "interference" acting on the preconceptions of the other subject.
Through Morgan’s accessible and holistic approach, drawing on decades of clinical experience, this book is an essential resource for all psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapists, counsellors working with couples, and researchers and students in Gender Studies, social sciences, psychology and the humanities.
Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, Morgan explores some of the fundamental tensions in being part of a between being an individual and a couple, relating, non-relating, and the narcissistic problem in tolerating the otherness and alienness of one’s partner. She guides the reader through managing feelings of both separateness and intimacy, issues around sex and sexuality, the tension between love and hate, and the importance of curiosity. She also elucidates key discoveries of unconscious processes in a couple relationship made by couple psychoanalysts, including unconscious choice of partner, the couple projective system, shared unconscious phantasy and beliefs, unconscious alliances, the couple’s own transference relationship and how the real "presence" of an other is seen as an "interference" acting on the preconceptions of the other subject.
Through Morgan’s accessible and holistic approach, drawing on decades of clinical experience, this book is an essential resource for all psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapists, counsellors working with couples, and researchers and students in Gender Studies, social sciences, psychology and the humanities.
156 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2025
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Mary Morgan
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For the Paranormal Romance author, see Mary Morgan
For the Paranormal Romance author, see Mary Morgan
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Main problem is to learn to live with the fundamental difference / otherness in one's spouse (mature love)
marriage contains love and hate, need to have a desire to know both to be creative, and to contain the hate within love (not deny it)
marriage contains love and hate, need to have a desire to know both to be creative, and to contain the hate within love (not deny it)
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