Mari Ruti asks Why Fall in Love?
July 25th, 2011Mari Ruti, author of The Summons of Love, also writes a blog for Psychology Today called The Juicy Bits: Love, lust, and the luster of life, recently wrote a post exploring the reasons why it is important to fall in love.
For Ruti, love ushers us to frequencies of human life that we might find difficult to access otherwise, and allows us a break from the pragmatic preoccupations that dominate our everyday life. Drawing on the ideas of Julia Kristeva and Alain Badiou, Ruti writes that love, adds a layer of luster to our mundane existence, making us feel empowered and self-connected even as it decenters us from our customary concerns.
In considering the potential for disappointment and disillusion that comes with love or loves failure, Ruti writes:
The problem, of course, is that we cant access the depths of love without opening ourselves to its risks that the price of allowing ourselves to experience loves mystery is utter vulnerability. This is why its easy to refuse loves summons, to decline its invitation to self-transformation.
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