No one knows when the story of love began in the history of mankind, though from a religious point of view it started with Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit. Scientifically speaking, love probably made its appearance with H. neanderthalensis between 350 and 30 thousand years ago. Neanderthal graves have yielded the pollen of brightly coloured flowers brought from different regions, and these...

Love, Tennessee Williams remarked, is another four letter word. It is one of the most misunderstood words in life and in psychoanalysis, in health and disease, for a long time an unmentionable taboo among psychoanalysts. Thus the Vocabulaire of Laplanche and Pontalis (1973) contains only the entry “Libido,” as does the original Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts published by the Amer...

In this brief report, we provide an initial account of the association between love and athletic performance from the perspective of Olympic athletes. We posit that Romantic Passionate Love (RPL) and athletic performance may both involve the reward-motivation system of the brain. Based on this premise, we explored whether activation in one domain (love) might influence the other (sport). Our in...

ABS1RACT In this study, individual differences in internal-external control were expected to relate to several aspects of ronantic, hetrosexual love. For example, it was hypothesized that proportionally fewer internals experience romantic attachments. Moreover, among persons having been in love, internals were expected to have fewer romantic experiences and to experience romantic attraction as ...

the subject of love has been a source of inspiration for poets and men of letters as well as a basic element for many literary works in the world and especially in the oriental literary works. arabic poets have also placed the subject of love as the progenitor of the seminal and enduring works and have presented different interpretations of it depending on their personality, their life experien...