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Why love hurts : a sociological explanation
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors. -- Publisher description.
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«Huego de amor»: la metáfora amor fuego en la estructura de Celestina
In the study of Celestina, contemporary critics have frequently analyzed how the work represents love and lovers. Our study contributes to determine love’s role in Celestina by examining a pervasive metaphor in the text, love as fire, and its implications. By far, the most common way in which the characters of Celestina describe love is by referring to a classical metaphor: love as fire. In fact, the phrase «huego de amor» (love’s fire) appears specially frequently in Celestina to describe the characters feelings. The expression appears in connection to two famous urban fires of classical Antiquity: those of Troy and Rome. Fiery love played a decisive role in these two well-known fires, and that connection implies that both the love as fire metaphor and urban fires warn the reader about the tragical end of Celestina’s lovers. Thusly, the work connects urban fire and love as fire to communicate a moral lesson about the dangers of love.
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La conciencia de Melibea
In this paper I analize how Melibea is characterized coherently by her conciousness, her deep knowledge of herself and of the place where she lives, according to the different perspectives and theories that have approached this character previously. Her behaviour can be easily understood according to her engagement with the public and private spheres of society, and the role that she has to play between them in order to live her love without public consequences, something that is not achieved because of Calisto’s death in her own home.
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«Muchos días son passados...». Magic and time in La Celestina
In the present work, we analyse the textual references of La Celestina that prove the existence of the magic element in the play and its structural relevance. To achieve this purpose, new references are offered in favour of the hypothesis of Melibea’s falling in love as a consequence of Celestina’s spell. Besides, a comparative analyse between the two lovers and courtly love rhetoric is carried out in order to dismiss the implicit-time hypothesis and to provide a new interpretation of Calisto’s and Melibea’s love.
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Pérdidas, Muerte y Duelo ante pandemias: “Poner amor donde hay dolor”. El velo pintado, El amor en tiempos de cólera y La ciudad de la alegría
El dolor del duelo tras una pérdida real o percibida es un dolor que invade nuestra vida y transforma nuestra biografía. Una situación de epidemia o pandemia provoca que la muerte se produzca en condiciones más duras y complejas; en ocasiones impide la despedida afectiva de la persona fallecida por mantener las normas que evitan el contagio de la enfermedad. Y el dolor se acrecienta. Entre las diversas maneras de afrontar el dolor de la pérdida, está prestar atención al amor que nos ha dejado la persona fallecida o las personas que nos rodean tras el deceso. Vamos a extraer varias enseñanzas de tres películas que nos hablan de la muerte desde lo más profundo del corazón.
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Barokowe „wojny” (z) ciałem
The article presents the topic of the allegorical war against the body, which in the post-Tridentine culture was perceived in an ambivalent way: as sinful and evil and as good because it was the work of God. Allegorical battles were also presented, in which the body is a tool in battle. Attention was paid to the sources of this ambivalence – the dualistic nature of man. The different needs of the soul and body have the nature of a conflict. The fight for man is fought by: Amor Divinus and Amor profanus. The bodies of people who lived piously and wanted to achieve mystical union with Christ are shown in the laudatory theme – similarly to. The bodies of sinners who succumbed to sensual temptations during their lives are depreciated, despised, presented in turpistic aesthetics, and ultimately condemned to the torments of hell. The ancient sources of this type of imagery were indicated – the ideas of Plato, the thought of Seneca and Horace – and the affiliations between ancient culture and post-Tridentine poetry. It has been established that the Body of Christ has a unique status. Descriptions of the tormented Jesus, permeated with brutal naturalism, were intended to provoke reflection and influence the conversion of sinners. The Judeo-Christian tradition and the heritage of Greco-Roman antiquity were transformed and adapted to the post-Tridentine culture in the 17th century.
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Epístola sobre la peste
Dilectísimo y muy honrado amigo , si bien su dulce compañía me ha sido siempre muy jocunda y singularmente placentera, no sólo por sus honestas y corteses costumbres, sino también por sus agradables y humanistas conversaciones, el hecho de haberme privado algún tiempo de ellas, como ya ha ocurrido varias veces por estar [usted] ausente u ocupado en más graves asuntos, me ha provocado un gran dolor, ni siquiera similar al que siento ahora, por su larga estadía lejos de la ciudad que atribuyo a dos principales razones. La primera creo se deba a que su creciente benevolencia hacia mí, con los múltiples beneficios consecuentes y duraderos, hizo que mi apego hacia usted creciera más de lo que pensaba. La otra razón es que, si bien es verdad que la multitud de las cosas y su diversidad distraen las mentes humanas, tengo que admitir que la variedad de encuentros con muchos amigos que en el presente extraño no me han dejado profundizar con el debido cuidado el recuerdo y la consideración de usted ¡amigo incomparable! y de su gentil familiaridad de la que, siendo ahora privado, extraño el placer que en otras ocasiones sentí [y que había menguado bastante] . Además, no solamente estoy privado de semejante amigo y de todos mis otros muy queridos compañeros, sino también de otras personas importantes, tal es así que si los encontrara me sería lícito saludarlos por el estilo de nuestras vestimentas, si no fuera por esto me sentiría un extranjero en alguna otra ciudad.
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