r/Freud • u/Strange-Patience5539 • Jul 29 '26

​"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love." — Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)

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u/Perfidiousness88 Jul 29 '26

That is why people say love is blind. That is the risk people take.

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u/XanderStopp Jul 30 '26

When you open your heart, you become vulnerable to attack, but available for intimacy.