There is a difference between "being in love" and "loving": "being in love" is a kind of madness, involving unrealistic perceptions and ideals, whereas "loving" is more realistic and usually longer-term. However, even "loving" is still based in our needs. Therefore, there is no such thing as purely altruistic love. Critically discuss these claims about love.
What is Love?.
The dictionary lists some two dozen meanings of the word "love". People seem to have their own definitions where love is concerned, many emotional conflicts and relational dynamics make simple definitions difficult.
Love has often been characterized as an ambivalent feeling v/s A blissful joy when one is with the beloved and a painful "sickness" and "torture" when lovers are separated.
Freud (1905) looks at love from the perspective of the sexual drive. According to him love as well as sexuality is rooted in infancy. A persons first love object is the mother. The mother's breast provides the infant not only with nourishment but also a source of sexual pleasure which he will later seek from his adult lover (for girls, the object of love somehow later becomes the father). Freud views adult love and sexuality as an extension (or rediscovery) of their infantile forms. Furthermore, Freud viewed love as the co-existence of "two currents" tenderness/affection and sensuality. Happy love is a fusion of these two currents.
Sometimes love is seen as selfless giving, sometimes as selfish clinging and self centeredness, some love is conditional as stated by Fromm's "fathers love" where it is said. "I'll love you if you dont talk backstay a virginaccept my values" or unconditional love Fromm's "Mothers love" where "I will love you regardless of what you do because you are my son, daughter, father, brother, friend".
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole not toward one "object" of love.
What is Love? Love is affection. Love is sacrifice. Love is compromise. Love is faith. Love is believable and unbelievable. Love is destiny. Love is strength. Love is trust. Love is a desire with lust. Love is the world. Yeah, exactly what is love? Love is all about showing...
One might ask, "How is love expressed? Are there certain categories in which love falls? How do different people react to love?" Love is expressed through a variety of mediums. ... If everyone understood their love language, people would learn how to better love others. ...
Throughout history Love has been a topic of conversation. Plato's Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about Love. ... After describing history of Love, he proposes that each person is half of a complete love relationship, a whole. ... It is perfectly accepted having males seek Love with females; if no Love is found having males interacting with the females, so that by the mutual embraces of man and woman they might breed, and the race might continue. Or, equally so, if a man came to a man to seek Love; if Love is not found they might be satisfied and go about th...
Love is the desire for the soul. ... Confused from what love really is, they immediately attract on each other. ... Lastly, they liked the idea of love itself, rather than loving the person. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...
"Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds, expresses her emotions against loveless sex as a hurtful and cold act. ... Sex with love leads to babys that are wanted. On the other hand sex without love can lead to unwanted babies that get given away. ... The figurative meaning of cardio could be love because the heart is a symbol of love. ... When referring to Sex Without Love, the topic of religion can be brought into the discussion. ...
Since many people fall into and out of love it is difficult to define what love actually is. ... He compares young people to being apprentices of love. ... I believe in most of what Rilke has to say about love. ... Rilke says that we need to learn how to love. ... How does one learn love without mistaking false love as truth? ...
Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... Throughout the play there is a constant theme of love and fate. ... 'Alas that love, whose view is muffled still. ... This also shows how ' first love' isn't always 'true love'. We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
It is not love that affirms the bond of man's unity, but it is man's unity and his bonding which integrate love into man. ... Because of love, some of mankind's greatest histories have been recognized as infamous, but also some of mankind's greatest histories have also been recognized, all of them influenced by Love. Was it not the power of love which allowed the Israelites to unify against the Egyptians? Was it not the power of love which brought forth Helen from Sparta and the destruction of Troy? Was it not the power of love which made Buddha an enlightened sage? ...
This is a location of Love Canal. ... So what is the lesson of Love Canal? ... The Love Canal neighborhood is in the southeast section of the La Salle area of Niagara Falls, New York. ... Unusually heavy rain and snowfalls in 1975 and 1976 provided high ground-water levels in the Love Canal area. ... In 1978, the Department of Health learned that Love Canal chemicals had surfaced at the site. ...
