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Romantic love
Romantic love is a form of sexual love that attempts to either partly, or in some cases entirely, transcend mere needs driven by looks, sexual desire, or material and social gain. These things, however, play an ironic role both in its arousal and justification. Secondly, it not only is dispersed with and even inherently related to family life, but often is to some extent or entirely free. Largely in the intermittent sense but also as free the romantic is related to tradition and legend. But romance is, or has become, the spirit of postmodernity, and its criteria include fashion and irony. Wit or irony ecompass the inherent instability of romance, fine-tuned to its late modern peculiarities.[1] The conflict between romance's individuality and its framework of jealousy is dealt with by Rene Girard. In its independent mode it tends to be a tragic region lying somewhere between on the one hand an ethical, and on the other hand an aesthetic (or possibly debauched) life, combining significance with ennui.
Romantic love is contrasted with Platonic love which in all usages precludes sexual relations, yet only in the modern usage does it take on a fully asexual sense, rather than the classical sense in which sexual drives are sublimated. Sublimation tends to be forgotten in casual thought about love aside from its emergence in psychoanalysis and Nietzsche. (For an account of the way the modern usage of this term is distinguished from its original sense involving sublimation, see the article Platonic love.) Unrequited love can be romantic, if only in a comic or tragic sense, or in the sense that sublimation itself is comparable to romance, where the spirituality of both art and egalitarian ideals is combined with strong character and emotions. There is no need to confuse this with Romanticism.[2] Romantic love might be requited emotionally and physically while not being consummated, to which one or both parties might agree.
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Romance is a general term that refers to an intimate and often sexual relationship between two people.[1] It is an exaggerated[2] or decorated expression of love.[3] It also refers to a feeling of excitement associated with love.[4] Historically, the term "romance" did not necessarily imply love relationships, but rather was seen as an artistic expression of one's innermost desires; sometimes including love, sometimes not. Romance is still sometimes viewed as an expressionistic, or artful form, but within the context of "romantic love" relationships it usually implies an expression of one's love, or one's deep emotional desires to connect with another person. "Romance" in this sense can therefore be defined as attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something or someone, in literature similar exaggerated narration is called romance.
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