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      Love

      ANNE MARIE PAHUUS

      RE

      FLEC

      TI

      ON

      S

       LOVE

      © Anne Marie Pahuus and Aarhus University Press 2018

      Layout and cover: Camilla Jørgensen, Trefold

      Cover photograph: Poul Ib Henriksen

      Publishing editor: Søren Mogensen Larsen

      Translated from the Danish by Heidi Flegal

      This book is typeset in Dante and Gotham

      E-book production by Narayana Press, Gylling, Denmark

      ISBN 978 87 7184 634 8

      Part of the Reflections series from Aarhus University Press

      

      Aarhus University Press

      Finlandsgade 29

      DK-8200 Aarhus N

      Denmark

       www.unipress.dk

      International distributors:

      Oxbow Books Ltd.

       www.oxbowbooks.com

      ISD

       www.isdistribution.com

      CONTENTS

       Title

       Colophon

       WHAT IS LOVE?

       A BIG WORD

       LOVE IS INSIDE US

       A BALANCED SOUL

       YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ROSE

       SEEING WITH THE HEART

       THE ESSENCE OF LOVE

       MOVED TO TEARS

       THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE

       THE RECIPROCITY OF LOVE

       COSMOS NO MORE

       WHO CAN EXPLAIN LOVE?

       I’M YOUR MAN

       I LOVE …

       THE PATTERNS OF LOVE

       FALLING IN LOVE – INTO THE VOID

       OPPOSITES ATTRACT

       THE CONCEPT OF LOVE IN ANTIQUITY

       CAN BEING IN LOVE BRING US CLOSER TO BEING GOOD?

       CAN VIRTUE BE LEARNED?

       IN SEVENTH HEAVEN

       SPHERICAL MAN

       EROS THE DAIMON

       ETHICAL LOVE

       LOVE AND DESTINY

       THE NATURE OF EROTICISM

       UNIVERSAL LOVE

       MAN’S GREATEST ASPIRATION

       ACKNOWLEDGING DESIRE

       UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

       THE PERILOUS ART OF SEDUCTION

       THE TRUSTING SPACE

       DIARY OF A SEDUCER

       THE ART OF LIVING WELL

       FREE LOVE

       TWO KINDS OF LOVE

       EROS AND AGAPE

       POOR OLD LOVE

      A BIG WORD

      Love is a big word, yet it flows so easily from our lips. Countless songs extol the raptures of “true love” or the pleasure and pain when someone “steals your heart away”. Humble in size, this word not only serves to describe our most crucial emotions and actions. It is also a recurring element in our everyday language and in the music that surrounds us: on our earphones going to school or work, at the bus stop, at a concert, at the gym. Everywhere we hear songs about love – especially love gone wrong.

      Love runs through and anchors the emotional rainbow of our lives. The pot of gold at one end holds the ordinary glue that bonds us to our children, our partners, our families. At the other end is a hot cauldron

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