Love

Love Often times when one reads a collection of philosophical writings on a subject, one will find authors who are usually associated with another field. Among these are Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, who are all considered psychologists rather than philosophers. However, they present multitudes of information regarding the disadvantages of women when it comes to love and marriage. The basis of Freud’s argument comes from the Oedipal complex. Freud argues that in order to develop one’s sexuality in a normal fashion one must join one’s Affectionate and Sensual currents. If a male fails to do so correctly he will never overcome his natural libidinal attachment to his mother. Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. This presents a problem, for a man chooses for a wife someone who he does have respect and affection for. Consequently, he will not be able to be intimate with his wife, and must seek a far inferior replacement to fulfill his sexual desires. This theory is called Debasement. Freud states: women, love, society, marriage, men, woman, man, one, therefore, freud, debeauvoir, wife, true, states, order, must, lives, image, nietzsche, however, without, often, never, male, live, jung, horney, both, way, society’s, since, sexual, same, regardless, own