Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
Hartman says: Man is moved by instinct to look for an individual of the
other sex to satisfy his physical necessity, imagining that in this
way he will enjoy a pleasure he would look for in vain elsewhere. This
pleasure, one lover dreams to find in the arms of the other, is only
a delusion. Subconsciousness uses these deceiving means to oppose the
egotistic reflection and to dispose the individual to sacrifice its own
interest to the interest of the future generation.
Spencer says that the passions which unite the sexes are the most
complex and the most powerful of all feelings. Admiration, respect,
reverence, love of approbation, emotion of self-esteem, pleasure of
possession, love of freedom, love of sympathy, they all unite in the
one powerful feeling of love. They represent a variety of pleasurable
ideas, not in themselves amatory, but have an organized relation to
the amatory feelings. The complex sentiment, termed affection, can,
therefore, exist between those of the same sex, but it is greatly
exalted in love.
Sidney declares love to be the most intense desire to enjoy beauty, and
where it is reciprocal, is the most entire and exact union of hearts.
The instinct, on the other hand, is absolutely sensual; it makes the
exterior its object and has no other end than sensual pleasure. Every
individual, therefore, loves more or less spiritually or sensually in
proportion as it approaches to the spiritual or bestial nature.
Hegel says: Love is the complete surrender of the “ego” to another
“ego” or to an ideal. Not the sacrifice of the possession or wealth of
the ego, but the “I” itself must be given away.
Finally, Janet declares love to be complete madness in its origin as
well as in its development and mechanism.
The same sentiment is expressed in a poem by Heine:
“Love’s madness! tautology, love is itself a madness.”
[AF] This common every-day kind of love, which is nothing else but a
refined sexuality, pure and simple, has been elevated to a fetich by
the modern so-called intellectuals and extolled in and out of season.
The advocates of the new love-morality show by the attributes, as love
at first sight, that what they understand by love is sensual love. Yet
upon this prosaic attachment they try to build up their new system of
sexual ethics.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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