When it does exist, it typically focuses on the external world. The individual’s intelligence and emotions are focused on self-interest and self-gratification, and inner conflict is almost nonexistent. At the lowest level I, Primitive or Primary Integration, mental functions are subordinated to primitive drives and the individual’s biological instincts and needs, including social needs. TPD enumerates five levels of personality development. I suggest resolving this problem through an analysis of love from the perspective and within the conceptual model of the Theory of Positive Disintegration.

Contemporary psychology tends to utilize the methods and language of the natural sciences and marginalize such a “hazy” concept (cf. Consequently, this term has been practically wiped out of psychological texts. This variety is due to an ambiguous understanding of the term and its “symptoms”. Paradoxically, it’s very difficult to define precisely what love is because of the almost limitless variety of emotional biases in relation to the meaning of this term. Love is one of the basic notions that identify the psycho-emotional dimension of human life. This will enable us is to distinguish between objective meanings and subjective ways of perceiving love in relation to different types and levels of development in the individual. In this article, I will try to determine how love is articulated and understood on a particular level of development according to the Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD). It is a theory that takes into special consideration such notions as the following: freedom, responsibility, creativity, contemplation, meditation, empathy, ideals, hypersensitivity and – last but not least – love. One of the most distinctive features of the TPD is its “spiritual nature”. Abraham Maslow saw great promise in Dabrowkski’s theory as one that emphasized human potential. The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) by Prof. Kazimierz Dabrowski, an outstanding Polish scholar, psychiatrist, psychologist and philosopher has developed a theory that is an exceptional achievement, and as a result it has been accepted as an important contribution to the world’s psychology legacy.

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