Why Love Hurts A Sociological Explanation

Name: Why Love Hurts A Sociological Explanation
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ISBN: 9780745671079

ISBN-10: 0745671071

ISBN-13: 9780745671079

Edition: 2012

Authors: Eva Illouz

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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…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Misery of Love



The Great Transformation of Love or the Emergence of Marriage Markets



Commitment Phobia and the New Architecture of Romantic Choice (with Mattan Shachak)



The Demand for Recognition: Love and the Vulnerability of the Self



Love, Reason, Irony



From Romantic Fantasy to Disappointment



Epilogue


Notes


Index