Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Our hunger for love

DOM CAMPISTRON

In my last collaboration, I talked about the myth of romantic love, the bad expectations we have about it, the centrality we give it, the pains and frustrations it tends to bring, the unjust privileges that partner institution has. However, while it is necessary to point out the cultural construction of love to understand our dysfunctional form of relationship with sexually affective members, at the origin of all this is not only that kind of wedge that have told us about love, and it cannot explain that (average) pathological relationship with love only from the sociological or ideological sphere.

We have a tendency to seek in the social system that surrounds us (only) the origin of our conduct as a society, or to attribute (only) any cause of our social problems. And without any intention to whitewash the responsibilities of the system, I think the analysis is partial, and enough pride to explain our deep functioning. If these interpretations were round and unyielded, it would be enough to turn the political system over to also change our general behaviour, and as we know, this is not true.

It is necessary to question the model of romantic love, yes, but it is not enough to fully understand what happens to us or to bring about profound change. At the bottom are our internal viscera, whose functioning must also be understood from the psychological configuration of the individual and from the process of constructing our personality. If we want to bring about radical changes, we must at least look at the nature of our psycho-affective development and make changes to it.

Our society is very affectionately dependent, because we've been too quick to ship from dependence.

We are born from our mother and our bond with her is affective-sexual, let's not forget. These first years of life constitute a stage of full affective dependence in which we acquire a nourishing and affective feeding of the attachment person. With quite satisfaction, we gradually began to feel able to go out into a wider world, with the protection we receive at home we have the sense of security we need for that challenge. At least I should.

Our first relationship with the mother, or with that person who fulfills the function of maternal age, is the one that establishes the pattern of the other futures. That's why it's so passionate to share sexuality and body with another person, and that's why it has so much power to create intimacy with someone, because it echoes that first love story that's at the core of life. If we had it, because we want to live again. But if we hadn't satisfied enough, and I'm going to do that, because we're just as in need, as adults. That is, these symbiotic relationships that only make sense in childhood.

Our society is very affectively dependent, because we have been very quick to send from dependency, believing that to achieve autonomy as soon as possible it was necessary to do so. This is a void, and the feeling is what is at the base of dissatisfaction as a society, which prepares us to the relationships of dependence. In order for affective sex to be otherwise, we have to look there, because there is the psychological origin of our excess love. If not, pink stories would not have the ability to cause such destructive effects on us.

Bidali zure iritzi artikuluak iritzia@argia.eus helbide elektronikora

ARGIAk ez du zertan bat etorri artikuluen edukiarekin. Idatzien gehienezko luzera 4.500 karakterekoa da (espazioak barne). Idazkera aldetik gutxieneko zuzentasun bat beharrezkoa da: batetik, ARGIAk ezin du hartu zuzenketa sakona egiteko lanik; bestetik, egitekotan edukia nahi gabe aldatzeko arriskua dago. ARGIAk azaleko zuzenketak edo moldaketak egingo dizkie artikuluei, behar izanez gero.


You are interested in the channel: Iritzia
The city of Flâtama

It has made me part of the routine to show the photos of our city. I take out my cell phone, I look for a census plane with the three beaches, and I say, "here alive." In a deception like that, they told me that yours is a city for a walk.

In the literature there is a figure... [+]


Hysterical materialism
In silence

There have also been elections in Catalonia. The Public Journal entitled “Emotions, pragmatism and xenophobia: keys to the Catalan elections”. The left is also in the pragmatic and manager, and emotions were mentioned in relation to Junts. But the discourse against migrants... [+]


2024-05-15 | Ula Iruretagoiena
Territory and architecture
Testimony

Where is the locality? The image asks. Due to the drift that has adopted our built context, unless what we see in the image is a new neighborhood, in most cases we will find nothing we can identify in the image. It has put us in a trap, because the answer can be Zarautz or... [+]


Eguneraketa berriak daude