Romantic love in the Gestalt-therapy view

Abstract

Gestalt therapy (holistic psychology) understands the human being as an individualized individual, who experiences their experiences in a unique and exclusive way, thus being affected by their subjectivities.  In this way, love, with all its defined and imposed socio-historical-cultural traits, is also experienced in a unique and exclusive way by those who experience it, having an I, an other and a we, the I being an individualized being, an other that is also individualized and a we that is unique and exclusive to the self and the other, at that moment and in that context.  In this article, the relationship between love and Gestalt-therapy is made in order to understand the history of Gestalt-therapy with its philosophical foundations, as well as its most used terms.  The love presented here will take place according to its historical context and its legacy today, in this legacy, love presents itself as heteroaffective, monogamous and cisgender in a "natural" way and is represented in cinemas, songs and in other expressions.  The heteroaffective relationship is the one we see most in our society, since the homosexual relationship is marked by prejudice by those who believe that homosexuality is an anomaly.  Finally, in a third moment, it deals with the unification of these two themes, that is, love and gestalt-therapy.  Thus, Gestalt-therapy, in its form of vision, works together with the experiences, anxieties and creative solutions that this heteroaffective couple can face in the love they experience.  This article was carried out through bibliographic research, in the psychology research bases and in the Gestalt-therapy institution in the Rede.