Keyword: «eric erikson»

The aim of the study is to reveal the nature and essence of love feelings in the existential-anthropological plots of the psychological theory of E. Erickson by analyzing the role of the object of love in the subjectivity of the loving person inner-self. Since the theme of love was not specially singled out by Eric Erickson, this determined the need for this study, which produced the following results: 1) the essence of love as an existential feeling was revealed, defined by E. Erickson through destination, which makes it possible to achieve ontological integrity both at the level of individual being (being as a loving person with a special personality structure) and universal being (giving both anthropologically more refined and ontologically more solid foundations of existence in the world), where both levels are interconnected through the existence of lovers being; 2) the nature of love is reconstructed, reflected in E. Erickson's ego-psychology in three virtues that determine each other (trust – loyalty – care) as the main vital forces of the evolutionary development of a person; 3) the mechanism of the subject-object interaction of the “participants” of love is shown, through which the nature of love is actualized and its essence is fully realized.