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KMID : 0385320010120020218
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.218 ~ p.230
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Love in the Narcissistic Culture
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Kim Hae-Nam
Paik Ki-Chung
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Abstract
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Love is the most powerful and puzzling emotion of human beings. The history of love shows that love has many faces, such as love as a fusion of body and psyche, disire for and fear of becoming one with the beloved, ambivalent feelings between love and hate, narcissistic love, love as the creative synthetic function of romantic passion, and the function of love to confirm us immortal beings, etc. The prerequisite for mature love is harmonious intrgratio of each developmental task. So mature love requires basic trust in oneself and others, establishment of a firm ego boundary, and successful resolution of the Oedipal conflict. Love is a social phenomenon,too. So love reflects the values and structure of contemporary society. Today’s society is a narcissistic culture. In a narcissistic culturem love becomes sensual and mementary and sex without emotion replace love. Nowdays people relate to each other in a part-object way and time loses its continuity. So people fall in love easily but they also fall out of love easily. In Korea, the change in the nurturing attitude of mothers toward narcissism leads to the raising of dependent men and relatively strong women. Thus older woman-younger man couples have become more prevalent. Also, the psychology of early adolescence prevails in this society, so pretty and partially desexulized young males have become youth idols in the mass media.
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KEYWORD
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Love, Myth, History, Narcissistic culture
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