Wilhelm Stekel: Quotes about love

Wilhelm Stekel was Austrian physician and psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Wilhelm Stekel: 34 quotes3 likes

“Experience shows that this transference very soon becomes the source of resistance. Love is only a seeking for love in return, Do, ut des [I give, that thou shalt give]. If the patient notices that love is not given in return or that it has not reached that degree which he expected, defiance enters in place of the love, which in turn manifests itself as active resistance.”

On situations of transference in doctor-patient relations, in Sadism and Masochism : The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty, Vol. 1 (1939), p. 46

“Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.”

Source: The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel (1950), p. 52

“Many times I had spoken about "mental bipolarity" and proved that our affects are bipolar. Desire and disgust, love and hate, will-to-power and will-to-submission, are composed of negative and positive parts like the current of electricity. My contention was that any human affect has its own counterpart. Later Bleuler described this fact as "ambivalence," a term that was accepted by everybody, whereas previously they had laughed at my discovery, and given me the nickname "Stekel with his Bipolarity."”

Source: The Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel (1950), p. 132