ABSTRACT
The great importance of aggression as a reactive instinct, an etho-logical perspective of psychoanalytic theory, and the developmental fluctuations of the rise and fall of love require the same attention in connection with one's aggression and hatred within therapeutic dyad. Within the therapeutic dyad, some clients may manifest love and desire for their therapist. One of the facts highlighted in the psychoanalytic literature is the unconscious meaning in the client's repressed aggression that might be disguised by the manifestation of a romantic or altruistic love for the therapist. Love is a desire to enter, maintain, or expand a close, connected, and ongoing relationship with another person. Experiencing and reflecting on analytic love can make therapists more differentiating, determining lovers in all areas of their lives and less sceptical and pessimis tic about the challenges of lasting and tolerating love. For W. R. Bion, love in the beginning is for the mother or nurturing carer.
