It is no wonder, then, that we suffer greatly from losses in love and the inability to risk loving. Contemporary thought has attempted to respond to this cultural climate that, in the words of Stephen Frosh, “[fights] against the deepening of relationships [and love], against feeling real.” The practice of Jungian psychoanalysis, among other contemporary psychological and philosophical approaches have addressed the contemporary individual’s crises of the heart, separation from authenticity, and repudiation of the other.
I believe there is no more important work than this--the struggle to address this crises of the heart, to transcend the fear and isolation of self-centeredness and narcissism, and to awaken our capacities to love.