ABSTRACT
Social bodies are potentially love's bodies. Charles Sanders Peirce is a great philosopher and his reflections on love demonstrate that even the naturalistic scientific horizon could, for him at least, not shut love out as a cosmic principle. Peirce speaks as a philosopher and scientist who has been attuned to his Christian heritage. Freud's great legacy consists in generating a practice that enables people to speak of their traumas and attempts to find themselves back to love. Psychotherapy is the twentieth century's specialty for dealing with the interior disintegration that afflicts so many lives. The psychotherapist's gift is but itself the continuation of the gift of the sign, and the conveyance of the sign of love to those distracted, disturbed, traumatized, and lost souls whose experience of lovelessness and search for love brings them to the therapist. The only God that is real is the one whose manifestations of love are inescapable.
