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Unrequited love has long been depicted as noble, an unselfish and stoic willingness to accept suffering. Literary and artistic depictions of unrequited love may depend on assumptions of social distance that have less relevance in western, democratic societies with relatively high social mobility and less rigid codes of sexual fidelity.
Teika was also a renowned poet, and it is speculated that Shikishi and Teika were in a relationship. Much of Shikishi's poetry contains a tone of saddened longing, which has led some to believe she dealt with unrequited or unattainable love. Teika kept a thorough journal, in which he chronicles his visits to Shikishi.
Unrequited love (separation) with emptiness; with anxiety, or despair. A state of profound physiological arousal. Helen Fisher has considered limerence and passionate love to be synonyms in her papers, but has commented that she prefers the term "romantic love" because she thinks it has meaning in society.
In the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, objet petit a stands for the unattainable object of desire, the "a" being the small other ("autre"), a projection or reflection of the ego made to symbolise otherness, like a specular image, as opposed to the big Other (always capitalised as "A") which represents otherness itself.
Amour de loin ("Love from long away") is a term used in romances and their study. The term has been used subsequently to refer to women whose chief characteristic as love interests has been their unattainability. It may also be used metaphorically for unattainable objects or targets of various sorts.
Horon (dance) is the Turkish word for the serra dance, from the Romeika horoi meaning "dance". [31] Many Pontic Turks, whose ancestors lived side by side with the Pontic Greeks, still perform the horon. Serra (dance), also called pyrrichios, is a dynamic men's dance. [32] It likely descends from an Ancient Greek war dance, the Pyrrhichios.
“It plays a very important role in face-to-face interactions and often conveys even more meaning than spoken words. Through nonverbal communication, you convey emotions,” said Dr. Diane Paul ...
Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, [1] is a relatively uncommon paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuated with them. [2]