A Challenge for Philosophy

  • Sergio Benvenuto International Institute of Depth Psychology (IIDP) in Kiev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/6763

Abstract

Starting from the Freudian theory of love - as an illusion of something that love is not - the author develops an approach to love that owes a lot to Wittgenstein’s thought. He poses the problem as to what extent love can be altruistic, yet without being reduced to a dynamic (whether Freudian drives or biological genes) that determines it. He proposes a fresh approach that draws love closer to ethics and aesthetics, insofar as it aims not at the beloved or desired object as such, but at the actual reality of the other. Love illustrates the human need for the real.

Author Biography

Sergio Benvenuto, International Institute of Depth Psychology (IIDP) in Kiev

Psychoanalyst, philosopher and essayist, he trained as a psychologist at Paris 7 University, Visiting Researcher at the New School for Social Research in New York, today he teaches psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Psychology of Depth in Kiev. He is president of the Elvio Fachinelli Institute (alias, Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis), founder in 1995 of the European Journal of Psychoanalysis, of which he is director.

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Published
2022-03-15
How to Cite
Benvenuto, S. (2022). A Challenge for Philosophy. Philosophy Kitchen - Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, (16), 25-39. https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/6763
Issue
No. 16 (2022): Meditations on Love
Section
I. Theories of Love