This article attempts to argue that Axel Honneth’s theory of love-recognition
in his that of recognition is an essential moment which can clarify the moral
and socio-philosopical meaning of non-cognitive behavior, emotion and desire to
which Adorno, Horkheimer and Habermas have paid little attention due to the
tradition of cognition, reason-oriented critical theory. However, Honneth has not
investigated the moral validity and socio-philosophical possibility of struggle for
love-recognition enough as compared with those of right and solidarity. The
causes of these insufficient investigations are as follows : first, the confusion
of methodological approaches to love in theory of love-recognition; secondly,
insufficient explanation on multilayered structure of the type of love-recognition
and its genetic, logical relation with other types of recognition; thirdly,
insufficient moral validation of the type of love-recognition. Corresponding to
these three problems, I'm going to do three interdisciplinary investigations
between philosophy and empirical sciences: First, in order to get relevant
methods on types of love-recognition, I'm going to reject Honneth's existing
method, which uses the phenomenology, psychoanalysis and developmental
psychology subordinately under the main method of act theory, and I will
embrace act theory under the genetic phenomenology of intersubjectivity instead.
Furthermore, on the basis of this as the philosophical method, I will
systematically accept research results of empirical psychologies - psychoanalysis,
developmental psychology and clinical psychology. Secondly, I will analyse the
multilayered structures of love-recognition and its genetic, logical relation to
other types of recognition. Thirdly, I will reclassify the personality disorders as
damage of identity or self-relation from perspectives of psychoanalysis and
clinical psychology which can be caused by failures of love-recognition -
negligence and excess of love as well as physical violence. The criteria of
reclassification of personality disorders are images of self, other and their
relation to each other. Through of this reclassification, I will prove the critical
risks of failures of love. Furthermore, by proving the commandability of
love-recognition, I will argue that it’s possible to validate the right and duty of
love morally. Finally, on the basis of methodology, explanation and moral
validation of love-recognition, I will seek a strategy of social philosophy on
distribution of health care resource of psychology consultation and therapy
which can fight against and prevent failures of love-recognition.