Over many years philosophers and psychologists have proposed various aspects of love. Love is wildly varied in its expression and its experience; its study can contribute benefit from both the incisive and rigorous views yielded by psychologists and the wide-angle, social, cultural, and historical views employed by sociologists.
Many researchers conducted studies on the theme of love and various aspects of love and romantic relationships. Shaver and colleagues (1996) said that love is a salient emotion, particularly if one focuses on the immediate short-term moments of love, or "love swirl” rather than the long-term disposition of love. Fehr and Russell (1984) conducted a study and they found that love is a fourth most commonly listed type
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Pursuant to Lee, there are six styles of loving: (a) Eros, the love style characterized by the search for a beloved whose the physical presentation of self-contain an image already held in the mind of the lover; (b) ludus, which is Ovid's term for game like love; (c) storge, a style hinge on slowly developing affection and companionship; (d) mania, a love style which is encompassed by obsession, jealousy, and great emotional intensity; (e) agape, which portrays an altruistic love in which the lover views it as his or her duty to love without expectation of reciprocation; and (f) pragma, is a practical style of loving involving conscious consideration of the demographic characteristics of the loved …show more content…
In his theory, proposed three major essential components of love. The components are intimacy, passion and commitment.Intimacy which is encompasses with the feelings of closeness and connectedness of one’s experiences in loving relationships. Thus it includes within its range of experience of thought and those feelings that give rise, indispensable to the experience of warmth in a loving relationship. Passion, which is encompasses with the drives that lead to romance, physical and sexual attraction and related phenomena in love relationships. The passion component thus incorporates within its purview of those sources of motivational and other forms of arousal that guide to the experience of passion in a love relationship, and commitment is the decision to love someone and maintain that love. The decision/commitment component is described on a short term and long term basis. The decision that one loves someone else is short-term and commitment to maintain that love is long-term basis. The decision/commitment component thus includes within its range of the cognitive elements that are involved in decision making about the existence of and potential long-term commitment to a love relationship. The amount of love one that experiences depends on the strength of these three components and these three components of love also differ in their commonality over loving relationships. The intimacy component appears to be
The article, “Measurement of Romantic Love” written by Zick Rubin, expresses the initial research aimed at presenting and validating the social-psychological construct of romantic love. The author assumed that love should be measured independently from liking. In this research, the romantic love was also conceptualized to three elements: affiliative and depend need, an orientation of exclusiveness and absorption, and finally a predisposition to help.
Love and affection is an indispensable part of human life. In different culture love may appear differently. In the poem “My god my lotus” lovers responded to each other differently than in the poem “Fishhawk”. Likewise, the presentation of female sexuality, gender disparity and presentation of love were shown inversely in these two poems. Some may argue that love in the past was not as same as love in present. However, we can still find some lovers who are staying with their partners just to maintain the relationship. We may also find some lovers having relationship only because of self-interest. However, a love relationship should always be out of self-interest and must be based on mutual interest. A love usually obtains its perfectness when it develops from both partners equally and with same affection.
The concept of love is a very ambiguous, controversial, idea that is nearly impossible to come to a singular consensus on. In this essay I will be describing and comparing two philosophical views on the concepts and ideas behind love. Through the works of Todd May and Plato, different approaches to the concept of love will be illustrated as well as determining the similarities and differences between the two perspectives.
This passage marks the first of several types of love, and gives us an intuitive
Love is a concept that has puzzled humanity for centuries. This attachment of one human being to another, not seen as intensely in other organisms, is something people just cannot wrap their heads around easily. So, in an effort to understand, people write their thoughts down. Stories of love, theories of love, memories of love; they all help us come closer to better knowing this emotional bond. One writer in particular, Sei Shōnagon, explains two types of lovers in her essay "A Lover’s Departure": the good and the bad.
Love is arguably the most powerful emotion possessed by mankind; it is the impalpable bond that allows individuals to connect and understand one another. Pure love is directly related to divinity. Without love, happiness and prosperity become unreachable goals. An individual that possesses all the desired superficial objects in the world stands alone without the presence of love. For centuries love has been marveled by all that dare encounter it. Countless books and poems have been transcribed to explain the phenomenon of love, but love surpasses all intellectual explanations and discussions. Love is not a definition, but rather a thought, an idea. This idea, the idea of love, burns inside us all. Instinctually, every soul on Earth is
Love. Probably the most exhilarating, fascinating, incredible experiences humans have the opportunity to have. It is natures beautiful way of keeping the human species alive, and prospering. A cocktail of chemicals in our brain entices us to fall in love. It takes between approximately 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide you are interested in someone. When you experience being in love your adrenaline kicks in (the chemical responsible for the butterflies in your stomach and your heart racing), your serotonin level rises causing you to constantly think of your new found love interest, and your dopamine level rises (the chemical responsible for desire and reward). You need the perfect amounts of all these chemicals to feel in love, too much or
Understanding and evaluating different theories regarding romantic attachments within the perimeters of psychology. Theories and ideologies as to how people fall in love and the reasoning behind this is one of the broadest subjects one can come across in psychology. To make things easier theorists and psychologists have broken all these romantic attachment reasons into categories. The following essay will be tackling two of various major theories that are known to be the reason behind romantic attachments. The argument formed is that the theories objections or opposite actions are just as successful for romantic attachment.
There are many types of love. In Robert Sternberg’s theory, love has three dimensions that include passion, intimacy and commitment. In the beginning of the
The Symposium, The Aeneid, and Confessions help demonstrate how the nature of love can be found in several places, whether it is in the mind, the body or the soul. These texts also provide with eye-opening views of love as they adjust our understanding of what love really is. By giving us reformed spectrum of love, one is able to engage in introspective thinking and determine if the things we love are truly worthy of our sentiment.
Intimacy, A deeper analysis of the intimacy component of love suggests that it is what promotes closeness and bonding between couples. Desire to promote the welfare of a loved one, Experienced
"What Is Love: Theories on the Greatest Emotion of All Time." World News. N.p., 13 Dec. 2012. Web. 09 May 2014. .
Love is an interpersonal relationship developed, maintained, and possibly destroyed through communication, but also can be enhanced by communication. Love is often described as a feeling of closeness, caring, intimacy and commitment between two people. There are six different types of love: eros, ludus, storge, pragma, mania, and
...he sweat and painstaking talent artists put into a piece of art. Likewise, when an onlooker sees a couple in love, how are they to distinguish whether it is true love or merely youthful, immature love? For this reason, only experienced lovers are capable of detecting true love in others. The potential beauty of love is held at the mercy of the two lovers. Thus the extent to which the love will mature depends on the unpredictable course the journey of love takes throughout its progressive stages. As with a painting, at it’s beginning, love has the potential to be something powerful and immortal. Easy love is happy, immature love. For love to be deep and meaningful, it must face challenges and overcome adversity. Love is the artwork of nature. Like the beautiful and serene calm after a vicious storm, love is often dangerous and uncomfortable before it can be lovely.
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