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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Alexander Lowen

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

Alexander Lowen

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.

Alexander Lowen

Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

Alexander Lowen

Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.

Alexander Lowen

Alexander Lowen

Alexander Lowen

Born: December 23, 1910

Died: October 28, 2008 (aged 97)

Bio: Alexander Lowen was an American physician and psychotherapist. A student of Wilhelm Reich in the 1940s and early '50s in New York, he developed bioenergetic analysis, a form of mind-body psychotherapy, with his then-colleague, John Pierrakos.

Known for:

Fear of life (1980)
Narcissism (1983)
The Betrayal of the Body (1967)
Depression and the Body (1972)
Love, sex, and your heart (1988)

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