Psychological view of love

             "...Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses..." (pg 267) "... Love, much less is known about the mechanism of the third major emotion, love. It is intimately tied up with satisfaction of body needs or appetites, including sex. In various ways its neutral mechanisms are directly opposed to those for anger and fear, so that the two types of emotion are largely, though not completely, incompatible..."
             "...Through the ages, thinkers and writers have attempted to solve the mystery of love. Myths, poetry and novels have the longest history of recording the idea of love. For example, the Sumerian and Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh goes back to 2000 BC, Egyptian love poetry was written on papyri and vases between 1300 and 1100 BC, and Chinese folk love songs were first documented between 1000 BC and 700 BC. Countless philosophers, from Plato to Martin Luther, from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Santayana and Sartre have also devoted their writings to conceptualizing love. In psychology, psychoanalysis was the first theoretical approach to provide us with an account of love. While psychoanalysis and other schools of clinical psychology have been continuously doing so, experimental social psychology for a long time failed to take love as one of its major topics.
             Love can give rise to three personalities (lovers):
             An "anxious/ambivalent lover". This type of lover tends to experience love as a preoccupation. Love to them involves obsession, desire for reciprocation and union, emotional highs and lows, and extreme sexual attraction and jealousy. They have frequent self-doubts, feel misunderstood and under-appreciated, and find others less willing and able to commit than desired.
             As a contrast, a "secure lover", being able to accept and support the partner despite the partner's faults, experiences love as happy, friendly, and trusting.
             A third type, labeled as the "avoidants", are those who f...

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