P. Lorenzi, A. Pazzagli - Vol. 8, December 2002, Issue 4
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Amore molesto. «Passionalità amorosa e comportamenti
molesti»
Bothering Love. «The close interrelationship between love’s passion and
harassing behaviour»
The authors take into account the concept of “sexual harassment” underlining
the difficulty to define it and the multiple interpretative keys. The close
interrelationship between harassing behaviours and passionate loving experience
is stressed. The possibility of stalking is considered in the three periods
in which passionate loving experience may be found: the falling in love experience,
jealousy and the bereavement experiences connected with the end and/or the disenchantment
of idealized loving relation.
The steps founding the background of stalking are investigated from a structural and psychopathological point of view. The more typical clinical syndromes are stressed, with special emphasis on the critical points between the real clinical conditions and the physiology of human love passions.
The roots of harassing behaviour are indicated in the confusion between one’s own Self and the Other, which is the founding condition of all passionate experiences, hence, stalking potential is inbuilt in the “genetic heritage” of all passions, love in particular. Concluding, it is emphasised that any harassment behaviour should be viewed within a relationship and interpreted taking into account a subjective view.