Abstract

SANCHEZ ARAGON, Rozzana. Psychological meaning of passionate love: its clearness and darkness. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2007, vol.41, n.3, pp. 391-402. ISSN 0034-9690.

Love as complex concept has been studied from different points of view. One of the most interesting theories about love proposes that passionate love is based on arousal and intense emotion. When the beloved person returns our passionate love (reciprocated), we feel ecstasy, when this person rejects our love (unrequited), we feel agony. The historical record tends to confirm the hypothesis that passionate love has always existed. The earliest literature, bound up between myth and reality, abounds in stories of lovers caught up is a swell of passion and violence, in western: Odysseus and Penelope and Romeo and Juliet. Based on these, the purposes of this study were: a) identify the positive and negative emotions and thoughts related to passionate love experience, b) based on first part, we develop a measure of positive and negative sides of passion in a Mexico City sample. Findings showed a wide range of intensities about cognitions and emotions involved as happiness, vulnerability, obsession, suffering, etc., and a valid and reliable test.

Keywords : Passion; Unrequited love; Emotions.

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