Publication details
Univerzálie lásky
| Title in English | Universalities of love |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
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| Description | Love is an ambivalent issue. People all around the world know about it, it is a sort of a universality, however – ideas about love are rapidly different not only across cultures but also within our very own society. We all long for it, imagine its scenarios, we all want to live in it. Yet – not all of us are able to express it, accept it nor give it to others, despite the fact that we imagine love to be a basic human need. This lecture will introduce the research of two anthropologists, who have devoted their entire professional life to trans-cultural studies of love and who later became famous also in other branches of social science – namely Bert Hellinger and Gary Chapman. Rooted in our own cosmology and ethos, the lecture will disclose the differences between love and ´falling in love´, as well as different premises which these form for forming and keeping up long-lasting relationships. The lecture is also a form of an activism, not traditional for an academia, since it appeals for the adoption of those principals of love, which proved from the scientific point of view, as well as from the perspective of personal therapy as the only trans-culturally functional model for a lasting relationship. |