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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyModern Love

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: Modern Love [In this chapter what we will see is that a socio-cultural perspective on the emergence of romantic love as a story opens up a thesaurus of meanings’.1 That is, it is possible to identify ways in which this love story2 partakes of religious ideals, enlightenment thinking, romanticism and socio-political changes, which the story dialectically juxtaposes.3 Hence Barthes’(1978, p. 148): ‘I love you has no usages. Like a child’s word, it enters into no social constraint; it can be a sublime, solemn, trivial word, it can be an erotic, pornographic word. It is a socially irresponsible word.’] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyModern Love

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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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29 –55
DOI
10.1057/9780230501515_3
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Abstract

[In this chapter what we will see is that a socio-cultural perspective on the emergence of romantic love as a story opens up a thesaurus of meanings’.1 That is, it is possible to identify ways in which this love story2 partakes of religious ideals, enlightenment thinking, romanticism and socio-political changes, which the story dialectically juxtaposes.3 Hence Barthes’(1978, p. 148): ‘I love you has no usages. Like a child’s word, it enters into no social constraint; it can be a sublime, solemn, trivial word, it can be an erotic, pornographic word. It is a socially irresponsible word.’]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Eighteenth Century; Wave Feminist; Romantic Love; Late Modernity; Love Story

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