Keyword: «theme making»

The psychology of love has a long history of formation and development. However, the main goal of revealing the nature and essence of love feelings has not been achieved yet. The explosive nature of the twentieth century made it possible to come closer to the realization of this goal, since human sensuality was rehabilitated during this period, opening up new opportunities for the realization of the "private" being of the individual. The research subject here is the existential analytics of love by the Catholic theologian Dietrich von Hildebrandt, which is of great importance in the theoretical studies of love in the twentieth century. In the program work on love (“Metaphysics of Love”), the author made an attempt (successful) to identify the psychological essence of romantic love, which is the initial stage of love feeling regardless of the cultural-historical context, and containing the potential for self-development of love feelings.