Bibliograph

Why love hurts, a sociological explanation, Eva Illouz

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Why love hurts, a sociological explanation, Eva Illouz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why love hurts

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

760978465

Responsibility statement

Eva Illouz

Sub title

a sociological explanation

Summary

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: The Misery of Love -- 2.The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets -- 3.Commitment Phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice (with Mattan Shachak) -- 4.The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self -- 5.Love, Reason, Irony -- 6.From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment -- 7.Epilogue

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