Romance (love): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 05:54, 23 June 2007

Revision as of 05:56, 23 June 2007

Line 1:

{{Love table}}

'''SupRomantic Lauren <3Love''' is a form of [[human sexual behavior|sexual]] [[love]] that attempts to either partly, or in some cases entirely, transcend mere needs driven by looks, [[lust|sexual desire]], or material and social gain. These things, however, play an ironic role both in its arousal and justification. Secondly, it not only is dispersed with and even inherently related to family life, but often is to some extent or entirely free. Largely in the intermittent sense but also as free the romantic is related to [[tradition]] and legend.

But romance is, or has become, the spirit of postmodernity, and its criteria include fashion and irony. Wit or irony ecompass the inherent instability of romance, fine-tuned to its late modern peculiarities.<ref>This phenomenon is expressed perhaps in popular culture as "throwing game." In Marxism the romantic might be considered an example of alienation.</ref> The conflict between romance's individuality and its framework of [[jealousy]] is dealt with by [[Rene Girard]]. In its independent mode it tends to be a tragic region lying somewhere between on the one hand an ethical, and on the other hand an aesthetic (or possibly debauched) life, combining significance with [[ennui]].