/lit/ - Literature

>implying love exists
>implying love lasts
>implying love is anything more than the momentary coveting of a person or thing

>>4930487
My love for that woman would last a whole two hours, maybe three if she makes me dinner.

>>4930479
We had a Lacan thread the other week, and some cool Lacanbro showed up and quoted some memorable passages on love and desire.
Kierkegaard might have something to say about it also.
Plato's Symposium is basically the first philosophical work on human love (Empedocles talked about love before, but it was more generic as a principle of attraction between physical substances).

Basically existentialism has often a lot to say about love.

>>4930479

also interested in this, have an exam on the literature of love in 2 weeks

Love is a spook.

Roland Barthes - A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Lacan - Seminar on Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge
Jean Luc-Marion - The Erotic Phenomena
Otto Weininger - Sex and Character
Evola - Eros and The Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex

>>4930492
>10 minutes tops

>>4930517
everything is a spook. your point is invalid.

>>4930522
Having sex with me is an ordeal. There is a fair amount of buildup, then I make the woman do all the work. Depending on how drugged I am it can take two hours for the session to be done. That doesn't mean there aren't times where I just get it over with.

Love is a spook.

>>4930528
I can't cum on MDMA and I always disregard this fact until I'm extremely frustrated because it's become pertinent

>>4930553
>can't cum on MDMA
you obviously haven't tried hard enough (or your partner wasn't trying hard enough)

The banquet- Plato

>>4930547
so is everything else ergo anicca

>>4930574
What? Do you mean The Symposium?

>>4930561
Yeah no. After 3 hours and four "almosts" it's time to give up. I'm not going to punch myself in the balls and fuck myself with a cucumber just to ejaculate when just existing on the shit feels pretty good anyway.

>>4930574

Yeah, The Symposium is just excellent.

The Philebus is supposedly about love, but in true Platonic fashion it ends up being about something entirely different-- namely, dialectics and literary criticism

>>4930479
Ars Amatoria, Ovid

>>4930596
I guess. The one I have is called "the banquet" translated by Percy

Don't do that to love please

>>4931041
do you even metaphysik

“I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply an
encounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn’t conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn’t calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.”
― Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love

Best one I can think of.

As always, Emerson has all the answers.

http://www.emersoncentral.com/love.htm

The illusion of love is a biochemical phenomenon and thus a topic of science and not philosophy.

>>4930479
>>/lit/thread/S4734395

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj1BuNmhjAY

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter10.html

>>4930479

This tune can tell you more about love and poetry, than a thousand treaties.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lspRhX5Vhhg

>>4931576

any texts on this? :3

Love is more than a feeling, it's something that requires effort and work
Like if you're dating your gf and get bored and leave her because you found someone better, there wasn't any love there
If you spend 20 years with someone through good and bad, highs and lows, realizing you're not gonna always feel emotionally satisfied with the person, but remaining happy, that's probably love

>>4931576
Good point, you should just kill yourself.