Friendship, love, and family

Manifestations of Transference: Love, Friendship, Rapport

A protracted debate has persisted throughout the history of psychoanalysis concerning transference phenomena and how they resemble or diverge from ordinary relationships outside the analytic situation. Indeed, it is uncertain as to whether the entirety of the analytic relationship is determined by the transference or if “extra-transferential” aspects of the analytic relationship can be said to ...

Love and the commitment problem in romantic relations and friendship.

On the basis of the proposition that love promotes commitment, the authors predicted that love would motivate approach, have a distinct signal, and correlate with commitment-enhancing processes when relationships are threatened. The authors studied romantic partners and adolescent opposite-sex friends during interactions that elicited love and threatened the bond. As expected, the experience of...

Using Friendship Ties and Family Circles for Link Prediction

Social networks can capture a variety of relationships among the participants. Two of the most commonly studied are friendship and family, or kinship, ties. Most existing work studies these networks in isolation. Here, we study how these networks can be overlaid. We study the predictive power of overlaying friendship and family ties on a trio of interesting real-world social networks. We show t...

Family life and illicit love in earlier generations

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Conflicts between Love and Family Relationships in Chinese Films