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Lucy-Ann and the Toads
[...]I asked What if I could do that to my boyfriend? [...]my mama's old boyfriend that wouldn't stop stalking her, always popping up at the supermarket and the church parking lot and whatnot-I did him, too. When I walked in the door LucyAnn had decorated the whole cabin in gardenias and baby's breath and had made a simmer-pot of cinnamon and apples so the whole house smelled like a love potion and she said I'd like to fall in love with each other again, and she sat down in my lap in her pink nightgown and I said Okay. [...]we drank the love potion, and I laid Lucy-Ann down on the kitchen table until we felt the good old things again and we stayed loving like that until we lived just long enough to feel like forever, hoping we'd never come back as tadpoles but as different birds of prey than we had learned to be, preferably ones with wings.
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Love : bondage or liberation?: a psychological exploration of the meaning, values and dangers of falling in love
Much has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. Deirdre Johnson, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her teaching and clinical experience to illuminate the whole range of this near universal human experience.How, and why, does falling in love affect us so profoundly? How can it enhance who we are, or must it ultimately fade without lasting value? Johnson argues that the many valuable studies by psychoanalysts, relational psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers have all made valuable contributions, and uses these to highlight and explore the many values and dangers inherent in passionate love. However, she claims that a more holistic approach is required to show how these various accounts can be seen as complementary rather than competing, and can be accommodated within an overarching view of the integration of the human being in its heights and depths.Deirdre Johnson's interdisciplinary approach cuts across the different modalities and will appeal to a good cross-section of psychotherapists and counsellors, while being accessible to anyone interested in the meaning of falling in love.
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The Evolutionary Masks of Love: Continuities between Judeo-Christian Religious Love and Modern Secular Love
The aim of this paper is to establish a series of links between some of the main religious formulas that arise in Judaism and Christianism and the romantic and confluent love characteristic of modern societies. To carry it out, firstly, we analyze love in historical Judaism, reflecting on the Ahavah formula, the predominant formula in this religious context. Secondly, to study the Christian drift of love, we first analyze how the emergence of this new religious faith (Christianism) provokes a change in the Jewish way of understanding it (love). Subsequently, we analyze some of the three main formulas in which love materializes in Christianism: Agape, Caritas, and Amor Sui. Regarding modern love, we first carry out a contextualization focused on the processes of secularization and individualization, and their impact on it. Afterwards, we present the main features that define both romantic and confluent love, and finally, we analyze the Judeo-Christian characters inherited for such types of love. The methodology used focused on a literature review and theoretical reflection based on this review. The research carried out allows us to establish sociological continuities between Judeo-Christian religious love and modern secular love in the terms used throughout the paper.
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Love understood : the science of who, how and why we love
Drawing on psychology, philosophy, anthropology and statistics, Love Understood combines evidence, theory and everyday experience to explain how we think, feel and behave when it comes to love.
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Engaging with strangers
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, even post-conflict state building. She describes startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged from one another and from their homes. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.
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Should you be a river : a poem about love
\"A personally inspired poem that celebrates the trials and triumphs of unconditional love\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Love
What is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated? These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied philosophers since the time of Plato. Tackling the mood of pessimism about the nature of love that reaches back through Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, he examines the links between love and grief, love and nature, and between love of others and loving oneself. We love too few things in the world, Milligan concludes, adding that we need to be loved too, to appreciate our own value and the worth of life itself.
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