Contact: William S. Burroughs's philosophy of love

The present psychobiography took up the three main psychoanalytic conceptions of love to illuminate the psychological development of famed experimental writer William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997). The study found evidence of all three concepts of love in the subject's life strategies: (1) Love...

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Published in:International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) England), 2023-02, Vol.35 (1), p.125-135
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Male
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