Curated by Abodid Sahoo
Research papersI keep coming back to.
Written by their respective authors, not by me. Collected here for their connections to autoethnography, photography, grief, memory and human emotions.
The reading shelf
Romantic Love
The manuscript is a reproduction of a thesis/dissertation exploring romantic love as a cultural artifact through the lens of depth psychology. It includes standard information to users regarding the reproduction process.
Discusses love and irrationality, arguing it is rational to pursue happiness and delight from love, even if it may lead to future unhappiness. Notes that love's peculiarities, such as the difficulty in calculating its actuarial value, led Max Weber to classify it as charismatic rather than rational.
The article evaluates the thesis that romantic love is an evolved 'commitment device' for motivating human pair-bonding, which in turn facilitated the idiosyncratic life history of hominins. It integrates evidence from various scientific disciplines, including the universality of romantic love, its neurobiological signatures, and challenges like infidelity.