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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyLove as Bad Faith

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: Love as Bad Faith [This chapter will provide a brief overview of existentialist (Sartre, 1943), Lacanian (Sarup, 1992; Salecl, 1994/1998; Zizek, 1994) and poststructuralist (Barthes, 1978; Rylance, 1994) views of love. What we will see is that romantic love has been respectively deconstructed in the above theories as a metaphysical impossibility, a utilitarian demand (without reply) and as a thesaurus and endless festival of meaning. This chapter presents a theoretical critique of popular depictions of romantic love as either realisable or desirable. It does not aim to look at the work of each of these theorists in detail, because the aim is to provide a broad overview of their respective ways of seeing love as impossible or absurd.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyLove as Bad Faith

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
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978-1-349-54459-2
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56 –73
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10.1057/9780230501515_4
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[This chapter will provide a brief overview of existentialist (Sartre, 1943), Lacanian (Sarup, 1992; Salecl, 1994/1998; Zizek, 1994) and poststructuralist (Barthes, 1978; Rylance, 1994) views of love. What we will see is that romantic love has been respectively deconstructed in the above theories as a metaphysical impossibility, a utilitarian demand (without reply) and as a thesaurus and endless festival of meaning. This chapter presents a theoretical critique of popular depictions of romantic love as either realisable or desirable. It does not aim to look at the work of each of these theorists in detail, because the aim is to provide a broad overview of their respective ways of seeing love as impossible or absurd.]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Romantic Love; Imaginary World; Love Relation; Courtly Love; Psychosocial Exploration

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