She, like man, is open to infinity and inherently anti-pragmatic. Love is the other side of human life, it does not come down to the satisfaction of our sensuality, since it causes not a feeling of fatigue and satiety, but joy, delight from endless renewal. The sexual instinct is easy to satisfy, and its monotonous repetition causes only fatigue. The sexual instinct differs from love in that it corresponds to our psycho-physiological organization, it depends on our sensuality, and its intensity depends on the degree of our saturation. The concept of love in Plato was the first attempt to uncover the essence of “pure” love, to understand and comprehend what distinguishes this side of human life from the physiological instinct, sensual satisfaction. ” Therefore, in each epoch different types and aspects of love were distinguished, attempts were made to systematize the forms of its manifestation, arranging them according to their importance and meaning.
Ortega-and-Gasset, “it is born in many movements of the soul: desires, thoughts, aspirations, actions but all that grows out of love, like the harvest of a seed, is not love itself Love is a condition for the named movements of the soul to manifest. “Love becomes more fruitful from our inner experiences,” writes H. Love marked all human activity in all its manifestations (love of work, homeland, pleasure, etc.), moreover, love can be the motivator of this activity, its stimulus, source of energy. First of all, we must understand that love cannot be reduced only to the relationship between opposite sexes, a man and a woman. To overcome this state, it is necessary to realize that love is an art (as well as human life in general), that it must be comprehended. The reason that many do not recognize this need is, according to Fromm, the following circumstances:ġ) most people look at love from the position of “how to be loved”, but not “how to love”, not from the position of the possibility of love Ģ) the idea that the problem is in love itself, and not in the ability to love ģ) the concepts of “love” and “state of love” are mixed, with the result that the notion that there is nothing easier than love dominates, whereas in practice it is quite different. Love in general is an art that requires experience and the ability to concentrate, intuition and understanding, in a word, it must be comprehended.
“Love is the only affirmative answer to the question about the problem of human existence.” However, he continues, most people are not able to develop it to an adequate level of maturity, self-knowledge and determination. Fromm notes in the book “The Art of Love”, is the most significant manifestation of human positive, life-affirming drives. The passion for love, the American sociologist E.
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