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In this work, May identifies and defines five types of love: Libido : A biological drive satisfied via sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension. Eros : A psychological desire that seeks after an enduring union with a loved one leading to new creation. Drives individuals towards higher forms of being and deeper relationships.
Love can have a powerful effect on the human body. Irving Singer wrote, "For a person in love … life is never without meaning." [20]: 2 A person's life is built the love between two people – their parents, the love they share for the friendships they make and eventually, the person they marry and have children of their own with. The ...
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
Starting the ’70s, with divorce on the rise, social psychologists got into the mix. Recognizing the apparently opaque character of marital happiness but optimistic about science’s capacity to investigate it, they pioneered a huge array of inventive techniques to study what things seemed to make marriages succeed or fail.
EVANSVILLE — Emma East passed gently to the other side, her husband Bob holding her hand and speaking to her until the end. Around the bed, family members murmured words of assurance.
Love, Work and Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria (Italian: Il vino e la carne. Una comunità ebraica nel Medioevo, lit. 'The Wine and the Meat: A Jewish Community in the Middle Ages') is a 1989 book by the Italian medievalist Ariel Toaff. It is about the establishment and everyday life of Jews in northern Italy in the second half of the ...
The second example centers around a dinner party attended by Süskind, during which a couple fawn over each other and ignore the rest of the dinner guests. The third example is an account of the German writer Thomas Mann and his infatuation with a young waiter named Franzl. Süskind then analyzes these examples in terms of Plato's philosophy.
Works of Love (Danish: Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard, written in 1847. It is one of the works which he published under his own name, as opposed to his more famous "pseudonymous" works.