The following article adresses the theme of “devastating passion” and discusses what would be its main differences to a love relationship, based on Freud’s and Lacan’s psychoanalytic theories as well as a Lessana’s contribution. It analyzes two clinical fragments that unveils how a mother-daughter relationship produces obstacles in the love life of young women. The conclusion is that in passion the imaginary prevails, whilst, in love, symbolism is fundamental. Finally, it emphasizes that the mother-daughter devastation is less nefarious than rapture.
Passion; love; mother-daughter devastation; imaginary; symbolic