Love's Confusions
- ISBN-10
- 0674017110
- ISBN-13
- 9780674017115
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 203
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- C.D.C. Reeve, Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities C D C Reeve
Description
Ranging from Plato, who wrote so eloquently on the subject, to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. As he explores the origins of Western thought on the subject, he also turns to the origins of individual experience - the relationship of mother and child, the template of all possible permutations of love - and to the views of such theorists as Freud, Melanie Klein, and Carol Gilligan. At the same time, he uses the story of the prototypical absent father, Odysseus, to demonstrate the importance of reconciling a desire for tenderness with a desire for strength if we are to make the most of love's potentials.
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