On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion

2015 pdf

Romantic love has been characterized as a conscious irrational state, fantastical in its nature, a transformed state which never lasts, a state which is transitory and intermittent at best. While there is some truth to this claim, various unconscious states of love and love in its developing, ripening or fading stages do not fit this profile. Written with a general audience in mind, On Romantic Love offers a new theory of love as a partially unconscious, sometimes rational and always controllable emotion, while explaining some of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions