Theories of attachment 1) “cupboard love” theories – psychodynamic/behaviourists 2) The ethological approach 3) Bowlbys evolutionary theory 4) Social learning theory Studying attachments and their loss can help us understand how early relationship experiences can affect later development What is attachment? An intense emotional relationship that is specific to two people that endure over time. Prolonged separation brings stress and sorrow 1‚ “cupboard love” theory – psychodynamic
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Defining Love: Aim-inhibited Libido or Unconditional Positive Regard? Abstract Love‚ whilst recognised as a universal experience has been found to be extremely difficult to define. This essay compares and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of two of the most prominent love theories. The first is Freud’s theory of love as aim-inhibited libido. Aim-inhibited libido can be defined as libido where the sexual instincts have been diverted or disguised due to the means for their fulfilment being
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Victims of Love A Wonderful day. Lucky isn’t it? To love and to be loved. Being in love with someone is a very special feeling’s that‚ you can’t explain‚ happy‚ humble and the heart beat’s so fast and strong. And Psychologists describe love as a cognitive and social phenomenon. In Judaism‚ Ahava is the most commonly used term for both interpersonal love and love between God and God’s creations. While in Christians‚ true love comes from our Almighty God. There are millions of approaches and theories
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Platonic Love In the Symposium‚ which is normally dated at the beginning of the middle period‚ Plato introduces his theory of love. First thing to note is that in Plato’s theory‚ love is given and its existence is not questioned. The word love leaves the matter ambiguous as to whether we are discussing love in the normal‚ human‚ sense of the word‚ or if we are discussing desire in a much broader sense‚ but in this discussion we are only considering only love of type eros‚ love as a kind
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Background of the Study Most people say love is a gift something beautiful from God. Love is a symbol about the feeling each individual. Deal with their couple‚ deal with their family‚ their children‚ and their friend. In the most stories‚ a man who falls in love with a woman will sacrifice everything he can‚ also with a woman‚ when a woman falls in love with a man will sacrifice everything she can. Not only about relationship between woman and man need sacrifice for a love‚ but also in family’s relationship
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such thing as "true love" they believe that love is nothing but an illusion designed by social expectations. These people believe that love ultimately turns into pain and despair. This idea in some ways is true. Love is not eternal it will come to an end one way or another‚ but the aspect that separates true love from illusion‚ is the way love ends. "True Love" is much too powerful to be destroyed by Human imperfection; it may only be destroyed by a force equal to the power of love. Diotima believed
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Biological Basis of Love The aim of this essay is to discuss and evaluate a more recent area of neuropsychology‚ which is the biological basis of attraction. The focus of the essay will be on how certain brain activities in regions of the brain are associated with feelings of attraction in an individual. These forms of attractions can be seen as types of love towards a potential mate and this essay will be targeted at defining what love is and the type of loves there are. The essay will then link
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strangers. In this paper I will discuss the power of love through attraction‚ personal bonds‚ and romance. Many factors impact the type of people we are attracted to. They include physical attractiveness‚ proximity‚ reciprocity‚ and similarity. Research shows that the initial phases of romantic attraction are largely determined by physical appeal (Curran & Ruppel‚ 2012). People’s perception of their own physical appeal also plays a part in romantic love. People tend to choose companions who are equal
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For readers familiar with Love in the Time of Cholera‚ the themes of love and death would be constantly visited and revisited again by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his novel‚ with a tad of heavy reliance on the cholera pandemic (as the title suggests not so subtly) and going so far as to intertwine them into a single notion (more often than not) throughout. Such a combination (and comparison) is most visible in Florentino‚ and helps shapes our emotions and thoughts about him as a character. Yet‚ in
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True Love From a simple mixture of sexual attraction and attachment to a manifestation of the human soul‚ feelings of fierce romantic desire boast no shortage of theories explaining their origin and meaning. Love is as much a mystery as it is familiar‚ highlighting a lack of insight into the human psyche. As man attempts to unravel the endless enigmas behind this apparently paradoxical emotion‚ more and more questions seem to arise. What is love ’s true purpose? Why does it begin? How are loved
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