LOVE AS AN INTENTIONAL ACT. SPIRITUAL CORE OF LOVE
Journal Title: Вісник Львівського університету. Серія психологічні науки - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
Love is the most important immanent characteristics of life of humankind. As far back as classical times, love was treated as cosmic power, global affective principle that unites people, while sexual love was treated as particular case of law, based on desire of integrity and intension to reaching it. After the regular wave of post-Freud sexualization of human’s psychic in the 60-ies of XX century (times of “sexual revolution” in the USA and in the world) it became clear that love doesn’t get exhausted by sexual technics and experience, since a person calls upon communication and togetherness. Philosophical conceptualization of phenomenon of love involves going above physicality and everyday evidence. Generation of love leads to ontological reorganization, but not just emotionally-subjective experience. Cosmic function of love involves universal impulsion to integrity, harmony, breaking of disruptiveness, plurality and antagonism. P. Frank associates the ultimate sense of phenomenon of love with actualized, complete transcending to “You”, as real, of my kind reality for myself and in my own right. Love is also described as ontological notion. Its emotional component is the result of ontological nature of love itself. It is spontaneous vitality of individuum, who is asserting himself, it is the ground for interpersonal relations. Whereas, the will penetrates the entire “being-in-the-world”, intentional volitions are forming that meaning content and the meaning a human keep. Interpreting R. Mey, it can be said that love is will to love, the way of reality realization. Sheller believes that love is universal foundation of the world, it is ordo amoris (order of love) of universe and human. Love is considered as universal power that operates in everything and on everything, directs each object towards axiological perfection, following its peculiarity. Love, just like hatred, is a certain scheme, matrix, initial structure of unrestful (active) content of all the independent vital certainties (objects, subjects). In other words, love assigns “structure” in intentionality of life. According to E. Fromm, love is based on striving to overcome human loneliness and large desire for general vital necessity in unity, based on specific biological need – desire of unity between male and female sexes. Sex polarization forces human to search for unity through the special path, the same as unity with human of opposite sex. Physiologically, each man and woman have reproductive hormones of opposite sex simultaneously. Just the same way, they are androgynous in psychological respect (gender). With respect to triangular theory of love, R. Sternberg emphasizes three aspects of that feeling and state, as follows: intimacy, passion and decision/duty. The aspects differ in nature, character and peculiarities. Based on their various combinations, types of love were described, as follows: absence of love, sympathy, ardent love, formal love, romantic love, friendly love, fatal love and perfect love. V. Frankl believes that love is penetration into the deepness of human “Ego” – Self-Image and Alter-Ego, it is the higher mode of perception and self-understanding. Being in love, the subject is fundamentally perceived as one-of-a-kind, inimitable essence, as “You”, and actually dresses itself in proper personality of the loving one. Love actualizes existential individual value. Love significantly enhances fullness of values’ perception of the one, who loves, it makes a person not blind, but sighted – able to see essential values, existential individuality of another person. Love is the terminal stage of erotic attitude since it is the only one to penetrate most deeply into the personality structure of the partner. Love is introduction to relationship with another person in the capacity of internal essence. Spiritual affinity of the partners is the highest reachable form of partnership. Spiritual core is the bearer of those psychical and physical characteristics that attract erotically and sexually filled person; spiritual core underlies all the physical and psychical outward appearances. Spiritual act, with the help of which a person can understand spiritual core of another person, is effective once and forever. Real love is spiritual connection with another creature, contemplation of the person’s original essence. It is not so evanescent as temporary states of physical sexuality and psychological sensuality. Real love, in itself, doesn’t need body for stimulation or performance, even though it uses body for both. For the loving one, body is regarded as expression of the partner’s spiritualism. Just as well, the sexual act is regarded as expression of togetherness.
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