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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyThe Demise of Romantic Love?

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: The Demise of Romantic Love? [Is the ideal of romantic love an ideal out of reach? What happens to us, internally, when we fall into love, or lust, or into daydreams about the amorous other? When does the sensation of playful flirting transform itself into the seriousness of romantic longing? What do we really long for? Do we long for a heightened sense of ourselves and of our more vital desires? Or perhaps the narrative of romance promises to deliver us from the everyday, the mundane, from temporal reality, and ultimately from certain aspects of ourselves. Alternatively our romantic longings may be excited by the hope for a sensuous and penetrating sense of recognition. Is romance our secularised form of faith and passion, the Western world’s ongoing soap opera and religion (see Kristeva, 1987)? And what happens to committing oneself to a cause other than oneself if the religion of erotic love rules the day, as Bertilsson (1991) asks. And why deconstruct a narrative, which, like any good novel, play or drama, reconnects us to a sense of life as vital and to a sense of ourselves as impassioned beings? Is the romantic narrative, as Pearce and Stacey (1995) imply, the best story we’ve got for anticipating the future with?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyThe Demise of Romantic 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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10.1057/9780230501515_1
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Abstract

[Is the ideal of romantic love an ideal out of reach? What happens to us, internally, when we fall into love, or lust, or into daydreams about the amorous other? When does the sensation of playful flirting transform itself into the seriousness of romantic longing? What do we really long for? Do we long for a heightened sense of ourselves and of our more vital desires? Or perhaps the narrative of romance promises to deliver us from the everyday, the mundane, from temporal reality, and ultimately from certain aspects of ourselves. Alternatively our romantic longings may be excited by the hope for a sensuous and penetrating sense of recognition. Is romance our secularised form of faith and passion, the Western world’s ongoing soap opera and religion (see Kristeva, 1987)? And what happens to committing oneself to a cause other than oneself if the religion of erotic love rules the day, as Bertilsson (1991) asks. And why deconstruct a narrative, which, like any good novel, play or drama, reconnects us to a sense of life as vital and to a sense of ourselves as impassioned beings? Is the romantic narrative, as Pearce and Stacey (1995) imply, the best story we’ve got for anticipating the future with?]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Romantic Love; Sociological Imagination; Psychosocial Approach; Narrative Study; Psychosocial Study

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