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Love
Wikipedia on
Love Contrary to common understanding, reflected in the Wikipedia article on love, I emphasize a holistic understanding of love that I express under the header: love is unity. That means that love is always erotic, and erotically intelligent. To my knowledge, this understanding of love is novelty and has not been introduced yet as a scientific or philosophical concept. However, all great poetry implicitly expresses this truth. Succinctly speaking, this means that I am against the splitting off of love into so-called erós and agapé, on one hand, and the further splits of the unity of love into neat concepts. These conceptual notions of love are enumerated on the above quoted Wikipedia page as:
What are these reductionist concepts of love good for? In my analysis of this question, that I asked for the first time in high school, in my philosophy class, the answer why this happens is the fragmentation of modern man and the rationalization and intellectualization of love.
Michel Odent beautifully talks about the
Scientification of
Love. What originally is a matter of the heart became a concern for the brain, and instead of letting go for love to come as a spontaneous, novelty kind of thing, people in modern societies tend to think about love and wish to be loved instead of simply loving, and without asking anything in return. The intellectualization of love, while it’s a rather modern phenomenon, is the result of splitting love in permitted and forbidden love, which is based on the upsurge of morality through patriarchy. This occurred for the first time in human history in the form of the so-called Code of Hammurabi. Already before industrialization, Christian life-denial has done its part in the destruction of natural love and its more or less total perversion into the love-and-sex dichotomy that today is part of mainstream sexology. The very split of love into love, on one hand, and sex, on the other, is perverse and anti-nature. The reason why this schizoid split was created in the psyche and behavior structure of Western people is Moralism and fear, and here, in particular, fear of incest.
The correct way to use language, and to use the word love, is to imply in it all its potential meanings and connotations, instead of cutting them out by splitting off love into loves, thereby destroying the unity of love. For there is no way out than the antithesis of perversion as a result of this schizoid split. We need to accept reality instead of fighting reality. Love is like the sun. It is impartial, and the force of its irradiation does not depend on those who are bathed in the heat waves. With language it should be alike. When I say I love children I don’t bother if you think that I also love them erotically. What you think is your business, not mine. But we have to keep language pure so that our code does not get messed up. I would rather say that the burden of proof in this case is upon you to demonstrate that you do not love children erotically - and why! When you deny children their capacity to be erotic for adults, you deny the most part of their vital energy, and thereby you deny them to truly be alive and live! This is simple truth and not a propagandistic statement, if you can accept that in your socio-cultural alienation and conditioning is not my problem, but yours! The burden of proof is upon death to disprove that life is unity of life and death. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure
that the details contained herein are correct and up-to-date, it does
not constitute legal, psychological, psychiatric or other professional
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Love
- parental love;
When a father says that he loves his little daughter,
people want to make sure that this father means he loves his daughter in
accordance with the incest taboo, and not as a full sexual mate. However, a unifying concept of love says that love always
contains the potentiality of sexual attraction. My
concept of