ABSTRACT
Freud once described the libido as those instincts subsumed under the term “love.” Even if it is often reduced to sex, the vicissitudes of love make up a central theme in psychoanalysis, particularly, perhaps, in the works of Fairbairn, Klein, Guntrip, and Kohut. It is less thematic in the work of Jung, for whom Eros is taken up as “the feminine principle.” Can love be a “feminine principle?” Only in the most abstract way, perhaps-one that hardly quickens the blood.
