“No matter how much it may cost us, we need triangles for the sake of our souls. Triangles open things up and potentially reveal aspects of our innermost nature. This may be one reason why attempts at ‘sexual revolution’ so often become dull and boring. There is no tension and no conflict. Our inner world […]
The theme of love triangles would not be complete without also examining so-called “protective triangles.” These are relationships in which a person panically avoids deep commitment to only one partner, because in the event of a separation they would not be able to endure the intensity of their feelings. As a rule, such a person […]
I continue with my presentation of Liz Greene’s article on the psychological dynamics of love triangles. This time, for people who can read their birth charts, there are astrological significators included. It is about the aspects between the planet of love, Venus, with difficult Saturn and Chiron. Aspects that point to the presence of emotional […]
Here is some further insight from Liz Greene into the hidden psychic dynamics of love triangles presenting another part of her article The Eternal Triangle . The previous article presented Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective, according to which the cause of love triangles lies in unresolved Oedipal struggles to win one parent and compete with the other. […]
Even amateurs in psychology are familiar with the Oedipus complex – this key concept in Freud’s psychoanalysis, according to which, at a certain age between three and five (the phallic stage of psychosexual development), the child directs its libido toward the parent of the opposite sex, while at the same time experiencing feelings of rivalry […]
*”True love accepts and desires the other exactly as they are. This touches something very deep and allows love to flourish. When a woman treats her husband like a child, trying to change him or acting as if she knows what is best for him, he often takes a mistress. His mistress is his true […]
