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Love's Definability
- Many believe defining love destroys it, a residue of late romanticism.
- This prioritizes feeling over thinking, but love has a history of definition.
Love's Structure
- Love has a common structure, like Plato's idea of desiring beauty or seeking a lost half.
- All love involves a backward motion, reclaiming a past, and a forward motion, seeking future wholeness.
Love's Backward Glance
- Love's backward motion can be seen as a regression to childhood security, like Freud suggested.
- This reflects Plato's idea of seeking a mythical wholeness, explaining love's unstable fulfillment.