The couple relationship: the paradoxes of intimacy
"If we admit that intimacy is one of the forces involved in the dialectic between belonging and individuation, and that for most people the need, desire, desire for intimacy are stronger than the ability to tolerate it, it follows that in in the sphere of our personal relationships, most of us are victims of human respect "(CA Whitaker, 1989).
Cross and delight of human relationships, a lot has been written about intimacy and several scholars of the psyche have dealt with it trying to explain what drives the human being to desire something that he perceives as dangerous for the integrity of his own self.