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In 1972, Otto Kernberg read three papers to the Menninger School of Psychiatry and the Topeka Institute of Psychoanalysis. One of these papers was “Barriers to Falling and Remaining in Love.” Four years later these papers were integrated into his book Object-Relations and Clinical Psychoanalysis (Kernberg, 1976). Now, nearly 20 years later, Kernberg has written in Love Relations: Normality and Pathology, a most remarkable synthesis of his ideas on love relations from the psychoanalytic perspective. Even though Kernberg considers this latest work incomplete, it is quite exhaustive in the range of metapsychological issues it raises. Love Relations is testimony to Bachelard's (1934/1984) sense that “every application is a form of transcendence”—Kernberg's latest synthesis of ideas on love and object relations is transformative.
There are 12 chapters, 8 of which have been published previously but are here adapted to serve a new purpose. Kernberg begins with