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"Love and Hate: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis- A Personal Perspective" is an article written by Michael R. Montgomery for the journal "Existential Analysis". Montgomery wrote the article in order to express some of his ideas and personal thoughts on the subjects of duality and psychoanalysis. Montgomery described a conference he attended; he was expecting more talk about psychoanalysis, but the speaker directed the audience with a talk about duality, specifically duality and what the idea had to do with the two. The speech by Professor Ernesto Spinelli evidently opened his mind to rethinking old ideas, such as chaos versus order. He also states that he found a way to combine the idea childhood trauma and looking at "the individual from a broader existential-phenomenological perspective "( Montgomery …show more content…

He was saying, in a general sense, that duality and the old style of psychoanalysis were still very relevant in today's society. After this, Montgomery went on to love and hate. He described his experience with armed conflict at a young age. The very personal experience made him wonder about love and hate. He mentioned that he " saw the impact of love and hate on a daily basis, mainly through the devastation caused by hate"( Montgomery 244). Montgomery tried to understand these concepts and his journey eventually turned him to religion. He studied Buddhism in his attempt to clarify the idea. He then looked for another explanation. He gave up a normal life all in an effort to understand dualism. After this trip, he eventually went back to studying psychiatric and psychotherapy (basically psychoanalysis). He traveled to parts of Malaysia to work as a volunteer to help the victims of natural disasters. During this work trip, he noticed that the "majority of the volunteers wanted certainty(form) as they faced the uncertainty(emptiness) of extreme conditions"(Montgomery

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