The article invites us to look at Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as a specific map of "disorders of love” — of various kinds of obstacles to the formation of close relationships based on the recognition of both dependence and separateness of two people. To read this map, the author uses two key concepts drawn from the work of psychoanalysts. The first is James Fisher’s definition of marriage as the opposite of narcissism. The second is Thomas Ogden’s concept of dreaming, understood as access to the multidimensionality of phenomena in the real world, as opposed to confinement to the inner world of magical thinking. In Shakespeare’s comedy, the author finds allegories of the most common deviations from Fisher’s defined model of a mature relationship — love dominated by the need for control, or on the contrary, being a blind expression of rebellion, a relationship centered on sacrifice, revenge for wrongs, or constant struggle. Based on psychoanalytic concepts, the article proposes to define the primary task of the couples therapist — as helping to maintain, strengthen or renew the "marriage” — understood, however, not as a marital status or religious ritual, but as a deep recognition of the dependence, bonding and separateness of "the intimate other”.