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For ordinary people, he says, a couple's disappointing first encounter may be nothing more than a "normal" event; for Barthes it becomes "a brief production in the field of love of a counterimage of the loved object".
Yet the taboo requires that the loved object as well as the homosexual desire itself be given up.
For Guido there is an absolute cleavage between the sensory and intellectual aspects of the response to a loved object.
At the top of the scala amoris lies the beautiful itself, the first loved object that like the "primary object of love (prôton philon) in the Lysis (219d2-e4)—is not in any way gone beyond.
He rejects Descartes's characterization of love (insofar as it involves imagining oneself joined to the loved object); he dismisses the role given the pineal gland as both anatomically incorrect and non-explanatory; and most importantly, he denies that we can gain control over our passions, holding that it is metaphysically impossible for the human mind to be autonomous in the way Descartes held.
Central to this complex emotional orientation, Badhwar thinks, is what she calls the "look of love": "an ongoing [emotional] affirmation of the loved object as worthy of existence…for her own sake" (p. 44), an affirmation that involves taking pleasure in your beloved's well-being.
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"He loved objects, and I was always fighting to have less," she said.
AN INTEREST IN OBJECTS "I love objects," Mr. Jeunet said.
"I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects".
We love objects we think with.
"I love objects that tell a story," he says.
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