Abstract:

One of the strongest emotions inherent to the human condition is love. Psychologists have made several attempts to describe the concept of love. Freud sheds psychological insight on the experience of love in Civilization and Its Contents. He thinks it's unnatural to draw a line between "ego" and "object." To paraphrase, "a guy who is in love says that 'I' and 'you' are one and begins acting as if it were a reality," despite contrary evidence from his senses. When a person falls in love, their "selves" dissolve into the "selves" of their significant other. Love, she writes, "warps the safety of an imaginary united subjectivity." Since the beginning of time, love has been one of the most popular subjects in literature. A universal human emotion, love is a common topic in the traditional literature of every culture. The love stories told in ancient Indian, Greek, and Roman myths are still widely read and enjoyed today. The characters in Shakespeare's plays often experience instantaneous romantic attraction to one another, illustrating the playwright's central topic of passionate love. The complex nature of love makes for rich literary material. Sometimes authors employ the idea of love to amplify the impact of another message or theme on the minds of their readers. Literature would be far less interesting if people did not have some innate capacity for love, greater or lesser

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Love and Failure Theme, Orhan Pamuk’s Novels, Roman myths