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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Written Origin=== | ===Written Origin=== | ||
While one may argue if romantic love has an actual origin or not, the origin of recorded analysis of romantic love is often cited as beginning in Medieval Times.<ref>Beigel, 1951</ref><ref>Hunt, 1959</ref> However, closer analysis reveals romantic love being discussed in Plato's symposium in | While one may argue if romantic love has an actual origin or not, the origin of recorded analysis of romantic love is often cited as beginning in Medieval Times.<ref>Beigel, 1951</ref><ref>Hunt, 1959</ref> However, closer analysis reveals romantic love being discussed in Plato's symposium in 360 BC.<ref name="exis">https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0053733/1 AN EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ROMANTIC LOVE by Karen Lecovin</ref> Here Plato denigrates romantic love as not 'true' love, due to it being transitory. | ||
===Written Conceptualization=== | ===Written Conceptualization=== | ||
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===Modern synthesis=== | ===Modern synthesis=== | ||
Modern notions of romance are extended into real-life through marriage, and retain the chivalric practice of man-proving-himself-to-woman. The idea of sexuality being a journey started in Greece. And the idea of love being essential to marriage (as far as it effects us today) started mainly in Puritanism.<ref> | Modern notions of romance are extended into real-life through marriage, and retain the chivalric practice of man-proving-himself-to-woman. The idea of sexuality being a journey started in Greece. And the idea of love being essential to marriage (as far as it effects us today) started mainly in Puritanism.<ref name="exis"></ref> | ||
== Relation to shit tests == | == Relation to shit tests == | ||