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Otto Kernberg's excellent latest book on Love Relations is welcome at a time when many psychoanalytic authors mostly concern themselves with the exploration of ‘negative’ affects such as anger, envy, guilt, malice, jealousy and shame. Not that this side of human nature is absent from love relations - and Kernberg never fails to emphasize how aggressiveness, whether against others or the self, plays a part in all intimate relationships. Still, he believes that the libidinal component has ultimately to