Summary
Eva Illouz: Why Love Hurts
Love and Society
Readers have before them a book that many consider an emotional map of contemporary love, and today, more than ever, love is essential for establishing one's own worth. The book is the result of the author's conversations with thousands of people, after which she was left confused before the chaos that pervades love and sexual relationships today. Why are women around the world confused by the elusiveness of men? Were men and women in the past in love agony in the same way as they are today? The answers lie in the hidden history of our imperfect childhoods and in our imperfect psyches, and this is an unquestioned assumption. The author wants to question exactly this assumption: to explain why love hurts by emphasizing the social rather than the psychological content of encounters between women and men.
How did we develop a hedonistic phobia of emotional attachment?
How did the love market arise, and how did the sexual fields arise?
How does love pain arise?
How did Hollywood, the Internet, and capitalism turn us into consumers of love?
What is love in this age? rule of capital?
This book can help anyone who wants to understand love to understand the social and cultural sources of new love scenarios.
Dr. Zoran Milivojević, author of The Formula of Love and co-author of the World Book of Love
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