ABSTRACT
Passion, a strong, barely controllable emotion, is central to human existence. Psychoanalysis is the only discipline that understands and works wisely with the complexity and multidimensionality of passion and feelings. But psychoanalysis biologizes the passions and tends to approach passions and feelings in an experience-distant, rationalistically oriented, emotionally unintimate way that unconsciously keeps the passions at arm’s length and eclipses the lived, somatic experience of them.
