1st Edition

Love and Other Emotions On the Process of Feeling

By Jason W. Brown Copyright 2012
    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    250 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory of the nature of value and its relation to feeling, belief, and to drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and appraisal is critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as jealousy, envy, anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general theory of emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain state.

    Preface , Falling in love , Theory of the emotions , Love and desire , The reconciliation of the emotions: love, envy, and hate , Desire for things , Love and pathology: a note on psychoanalytic theory , Pornography and perversion , Kindness and compassion , Belief and value , Philosophy of romantic love

    Biography

    Jason W Brown