TY - JOUR A1 - Mitchell, Stephen A. T1 - Identification with the Aggressor – An Interactive Tactic or an Intrapsychic Tomb-: Commentary on Paper by Jay Frankel JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 319-322. Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mitchell, Stephen A. T1 - Healing Longing in the Midst of Damage JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 07 (1997), pp. 023-041. N2 - Despite its centrality in the lives of many people, psychoanalysis, with its traditional emphasis on psychosexuality and rationalism, has generally undervalued the importance of love and romance. This essay explores this devaluation within psychoanalytic theorizing and the parallel widespread degradation of love in everyday life. Whereas common wisdom claims that familiarity extinguishes love, I argue that the illusory security that familiarity often masks is endangered by genuine love, with all its accompanying risks. Y1 - 1997 ER -