ABSTRACT
The debate in psychology whether love is volition or need, that is, intentional or involuntary, or what role decision plays in falling in love, reflects the proximity of the dominant segment to drive or to desire. The conceptual-feeling—the feeling inside the developing object or object-concept of the beloved—externalizes with the beloved yet remains part of the pre-figuring concept. Interest occurs when the feeling hidden inside all the objects of the field is sequestered in just one. Submission in a shared love is not abject servitude but a reconciliation of complementary attitudes that ranges from acquiescence to surrender of will, even to death in love's service. Love is a form of value, and value takes many forms. It begins with drive in the unconscious core of the self. Core value is bound up with drive in relation to the self-preservative instincts, such as hunger.
