An existential structure of love
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An existential structure of love. / Sköld, Alfred Thomas Bordado; Roald, Tone.
I: The Humanistic Psychologist, Bind 49, Nr. 3, 2021, s. 369-380.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - An existential structure of love
AU - Sköld, Alfred Thomas Bordado
AU - Roald, Tone
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this article we argue that love is to be understood in relation to a deeper existential structure. Love actualizes the extremes of activity and passivity, two fundamental existential positions. On one hand, we are thrown into the world and the Other in immediacy that exceeds our control. On the other hand, we are responsible for how this encounter is carried into the future. A living love relationship can be said to consist of an oscillation between these poles. Furthermore, we argue that this process is intimately bound to subjectivity. We become subjectivized through the dialectic struggle between what is given and acting on it. In this way, the dialectic of love can be seen as one of the arenas where we most profoundly "become who we are." © 2020 American Psychological Association.
AB - In this article we argue that love is to be understood in relation to a deeper existential structure. Love actualizes the extremes of activity and passivity, two fundamental existential positions. On one hand, we are thrown into the world and the Other in immediacy that exceeds our control. On the other hand, we are responsible for how this encounter is carried into the future. A living love relationship can be said to consist of an oscillation between these poles. Furthermore, we argue that this process is intimately bound to subjectivity. We become subjectivized through the dialectic struggle between what is given and acting on it. In this way, the dialectic of love can be seen as one of the arenas where we most profoundly "become who we are." © 2020 American Psychological Association.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Kierkegaard
KW - Søren Kierkegaard
KW - Human existence
U2 - 10.1037/hum0000165
DO - 10.1037/hum0000165
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 369
EP - 380
JO - The Humanistic Psychologist
JF - The Humanistic Psychologist
SN - 0887-3267
IS - 3
ER -
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