Relationships
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Relationships
What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comThis is good! So elegant. Feels like a theory of everything when it comes to relationships.
life’s lines of closeness. whew! this made me emotional.
What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers.
• Plato: It's remembering a soul.
• Freud: It's desire in disguise.
• Buddha: It's letting go.
• Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness.
• Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies.
• Kafka: It's a wound that... See more
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Our generation’s collective consciousness in regards to love is a complex/spoiled one. Through globalization and over-stimuli we are drowning in contradicting self-imposed subjective expectations and demands towards love.
To have → love.
To want → desire.
Imagination, admiration, novelty, and vulnerability play protagonist roles in the feeling of drawness towards a partner.
Neediness is an anti-aphrodisiac – anything resembling parenthood.
The erotic as an antidote to death, mechanism to survive during the holocaust. The erotic mind is full of contradictions, love them <3
A note on companion