Unrequited Love Research Articles

Forough Farrokhzad’s “Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season”

Abstract Forough Farrokhzad’s “Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season” is an exploration of the poetic form of an elegy, encountering nuances of gender, sexuality, mourning, depression, and unrequited love within the containment of religious and cultural laws that dominate leadership in the Islamic country of Iran. Her poetry extends traditional boundaries of lament and elegy to explore oppositions of love and longing, birth and death, seasonality versus time’s continuance, and winter as entrance rather than ending.

Contradictions Of Raja Giddh

Bano Qudsia, a well-known novelist of Urdu fiction has written four novels. Raja giddh gained great popularity. The novel is based on many themes. She has deep insight of human psychology. By exposing the contradiction of human characters, She has displayed the duality of human nature. In this great pieces of writing, Bano has described the four stages of life in which ups and down are reflected vividly. This classical novel also shows the religious concept of Hallal and Haraam. She Preaches faith and transparency in life. This Classical novel also has the Shadow of failed love. Thus Novel is a great combination of Psychology, Philosophy, religion and Sociology. It is a reforming and moral story to point out the negativity of man and society

Geschlecht und Autorschaft Stefan Zweigs “Künstlernovelle” Brief einer Unbekannten

Abstract: Brief einer Unbekannten , one of Stefan Zweig’s best-known novellas, is the story of a famous writer who receives a letter from an “unknown” woman who tells him of her unrequited love for him. The reason for the letter is the death of their child. The novella is often cited as an example of Zweig’s psychologically sensitive portrayal of his characters. The aim of this article is to read the novella as a reflection on Zweig’s artistry and authorship, with the category of gender playing a decisive role: The unknown woman herself appears as a writing woman next to the male writer. In light of contemporary gender discourses that shape the constellation of characters and genders in the novella, Brief einer Unbekannten can be read as an expression of Stefan Zweig’s examination of his own authorship. The question of female and male writing thus becomes a question of distinction. This concerns, in no small part, Stefan Zweig’s personal life and that of his wife Friderike, who not only promoted her husband’s career but was also herself a writer.

True Love Is Reciprocal: Thomas Aquinas on the Love of Friendship

AbstractOne of the most important topics that Thomas Aquinas discusses in his extensive corpus is the love of friendship, which is a unique form of love aimed at persons. Yet Aquinas's teachings on this are perplexing, for he claims that this love always produces union between lover and beloved, and that it is always a mutual love. This implies that one's love depends on reciprocation from the beloved, which seems implausible given the possibility of phenomena such as unrequited love. A common interpretation of Aquinas's account of the love of friendship maintains that it is enough that one desires union and mutuality for such love to obtain even if such desires remain unrealized, but in this paper I reject this reading and argue that achieving union and mutuality is essential to this form of love. This novel interpretation ultimately reveals that the love of friendship is an intrinsically interpersonal act.

Sparks of Platonic Love in Pashto Poetry

Platonic love is a word used by psychologists to describe illusory love and connection. It is typically a one-sided love that revolves around the axis of imagination, with no objective and genuine interaction between the lover and the beloved. Many societies, people, and values, particularly psychologists, refer to this type of love as original and pure love. It is also known as divine love, while the opposite is earthly or bodily love. Plato, the Greek philosopher and thinker, preached a love that was solely spiritual and ideal, with no regard for the body, particularly sexual impulses. The lover and the adored have no relationship and do not make a connection. It is known as Platonic love since Plato cannot be held responsible for its defeat or failure. This love was not previously known as Platonic love, as it is today, but researchers of our time, who studied Plato's norms and values for love, attributed this view of love to him in Pashto poetry. There are several examples of such love, and the purpose of this article is to explore a few of them.

The Different Facets of Love: Exploring Mandaya Love Songs

This study explores the cultural significance of Mandaya literary songs, particularly focusing on themes of love. Set within the context of the Mandaya community in Mindanao, the research aimed to interpret messages conveyed in these songs, describe the cultural expressions of love, and illustrate values through a comprehensive analysis using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis framework. The researchers transcribed and translated audio recordings of Mandaya love songs to facilitate analysis. Findings revealed a predominant focus on heartbreak, betrayal, unrequited love, and the yearning for reciprocated love. The songs also portray emotional depth, hopefulness, and resilience in the face of heartbreak, providing a nuanced understanding of Mandaya love and romantic indigenous culture. This research contributes to the appreciation of indigenous literature and art, understanding cultural diversity and preserving traditional practices, specifically regarding Mandaya love songs. Further research is needed to explore the discrepancy between expected and actual themes, enhancing comprehension of how romantic love is depicted in Mandaya songs.

Verses Through Thorns: An Archetypal Interpretation of Trauma in Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Emily Dickinson, a renowned American poetess, authored nearly two thousand poems, embodying her legendary life through themes rich in emotion and complexity. Trauma, manifesting in various forms from her childhood to her reclusive later years, pervades Dickinson's secretive existence. Her poetry, marked by a profound personal touch, weaves the pain of loss, social isolation, unrequited love, physical suffering, and existential quandaries into metaphoric and symbolic language. Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung posited the existence of a collective unconscious in the human psyche, comprising universal symbols and motifs known as "archetypes", which subconsciously influence the poet's comprehension of trauma, thereby revealing themselves in her intricately profound verses. This paper explores the symbolic elements and manifestations of Dickinson's inner trauma through three classic archetypes— the Shadow, the Magician, and the Hero's Journey— examining how these archetypes' themes and symbols relate to her personal trauma experiences, thereby delving into the poet's psyche as she confronts trauma, seeking self-healing and personal growth.

Повесть И. С. Тургенева «Первая любовь»: на границах идиллии

The paper is dedicated to analysing Ivan Turgenev’s novella “First Love” (1860), which has not undergone detailed philological scrutiny before. The research aims to identify the border phenomena of the idyllic discourse and its specificity. The scientific novelty of the paper lies in examining the boundaries of the idyllic through the analysis of characters, chronotopes, and the motif system in the novella. The research findings revealed that in Turgenev’s work, all types of idyll – rural, familial, and romantic – are seemingly present, but they are only represented at the level of genre-specific features (beautiful nature, youthful age, first love). The novella represents a recollection, reflection, a turn to the “golden age” of the hero’s youth, his first infatuation, thus demonstrating elegiac traits. Through the lens of idyllic images, motifs, and details of the chronotope, their quasi-significance is seen. Semantic signs (the garden, linden trees, alleys) serve as substitutes for unrequited love. Details of “locus amoenus” are merely symbols linking the author’s work to the idyllic tradition, but in reality, they deviate from reader expectations and demonstrate the opposite of an idyllic world perception.

General features of existential depression in youth

IntroductionThe axial symptom of existential depression in youth is overvalued ideas about the meaninglessness of human life, its inconsistency with a certain “spiritual self-ideal”; ideas of humiliation, insolvency, low value, imperfection of society are noted, which accompanies varying degrees of severity of suicidal thoughts. The high suicidal risk, insufficient knowledge of such conditions makes it important to study.ObjectivesDetermination of the clinical and psychopathological consequences of existential depression in youth.Methods53 male 16-25 years old with F31.3, F31.4, F32, F33 (ICD-10) with the existential depression were examined with clinical-psychopathological method, psychometric assessment of depression was carried out using the HDRS scale, assessment of suicidal intentions - using the C-SSRS scale. Also were analyzed: premorbid personality structure, hereditary burden in first-degree relatives, the role of exogenous provocations. Statistical data processing was carried out using the STATISTICA software package 10.0 for WINDOWS (StatSoft, USA, was used Pearson χ² test, Student t-test. The critical level of statistical significance is p ≤ 0.05.ResultsA significant role in the manifestation of existential depression was played by exogenous provocations (χ²=9.47, p=0.05), especially psychotrauma: the most common were the death of a close relative or friend, unrequited love, and failure to enter the desired university.According to the premorbid personality structure schizoid (56.7%) and psychasthenic personalities (30.2%) prevailed. When assessing hereditary burden (χ²=9.59 p=0.047), pathocharacterological features were noted in first-degree relatives in 32.1% cases, affective disoders in 26, 4%.In terms of social and labor status (χ²=9.47, p=0.05), university students naturally predominated (56.6%). The average age of onset of depression was 17.8 ± 1.2 years, duration 3.7 ± 1.5 months. Non-suicidal self-harm was observed in 32.1%, especially in the initial stages of depression. Among suicidal tendencies (χ²=9.58, p=0.048), anti-vital thoughts (50.9%) and passive suicidal thoughts (34%) dominated; 5.7% of patients attempted suicide. On the HDRS scale, patients scored an average of 18.2±1.7 points, which reflected the severity of depression; the total score on the C-SSRS scale was 2.12±0.34.ConclusionsIn the formation of existential depression, a significant role of exogenous provocations, especially psychotrauma, was discovered; a high suicidal risk was confirmed. Existential depressive states differed in duration; patients of the identified typological varieties scored high on the HDRS and C-SSRS scales. In the future, it is planned to study the follow-up group for the purpose of a detailed analysis of the dynamics of such conditions and their nosological affiliation.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared

Rodzina dysfunkcyjna w „Panu Tadeuszu” Adama Mickiewicza

The subject of this article is to present a dysfunctional family on the example of Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz. The title character of the epic grew up in a family with pronounced dysfunction on many levels. As a small boy, he was abandoned by his father, Jacek Soplica, who could not cope with his unrequited love for Ewa Horeszkówna. Due to his alcohol addiction and constant desire for revenge, he neglected both the mother of his son and Tadeusz himself. Later events in the life of the title character show what problems the young man had to struggle with in his adult existence. Visible confusion and a desire to escape responsibility for one's actions illustrate the consequences of even a short-term upbringing in a dysfunctional family.

«Защита Лужина» В. Набокова в контексте традиций романа воспитания

The aim of the study is to justify the concept of the world-modeling strategy of V. Nabokov as a novelist during the Berlin period of his creative development. The paper proceeds from the obvious fact that the Russian writer utilized narratives widely used in the preceding literary practice, which the author elaborates to create his world picture enriched with new content. The first two of his novels, “Mary” and “King, Queen, Knave”, are constructed this way: one can easily recognize plots based on the motifs of unrequited love and adultery. However, regarding the subsequent novel “The Luzhin Defense”, a similar connection with the preceding literary tradition is not established. The proposed concept of the genre identity of this novel, coupled with its narrative features, adds some clarifications to its understanding. The study is original in that it is the first to reveal the causal and semantic correlation of V. Nabokov’s third novel with the European Bildungsroman. The underlying world model proved historically exceptionally productive. It is this model that the first-wave Russian émigré writer builds on. The result of the study amounts to the identification of the principles of artistic world-modeling underlying the literary strategy of V. Nabokov as a novelist during the Berlin period of his creative evolution.

(Don’t) Play Again

How many times would you choose to be reborn? How many times would it take to get it right? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator lives and dies, and after death, sees the option to try living life again. In his first time he kills himself over a failed love. In his next life he chases power. In the next life, fame. The next time he tries the simple life with a spouse, a family, and an otherwise uneventful existence. Each time he lives and dies he is given the choice to try again while keeping the “instinctual memory” of the time before. How many times will he repeat the process when each time seems to give him an unsatisfactory result. Finally, he questions the being he keeps meeting in the afterlife and wonders if, perhaps, it’s not him, but the being, that has to “Play Again.”

Edward Lears Bittersweet Attempt: Being Seen as a Person Alone in a Landscape The Dong with a Luminous Nose

Edward Lear left a rich and precious poetic legacy from the Victorian Age even though accompanied by illness, loneliness, and melancholy throughout his life. Before nearly one hundred years, scholars have pointed out how Lears subject differed from other nonsense verse writers, as well as the autobiographical elements of his poems. But this self-writing in the form of nonsense is never straightforward. It is often confusing whether Lears poems are meant to take people to the land of nonsense to wander or explore, hoping that people will feel the same pleasure and spiritual support in nonsense as he does himself, or whether he wants people to see him calling out for cares and hopes, to see his own desires, frustrations and sorrows. Based on The Dong with a Luminous Nose, this article examines and explains how the Dong is a symbol of Lears self. Lear projects his suffering from loneliness and unrequited love and his eccentric lifelong sense of exile into this poem; yet at the same time satisfies some of his desires, his quest for the aesthetic of sadness, his own idealism and his deeply hidden histrionic personality. This article fully integrates Lears biography, his status as a landscape painter and his creative talents brought about by his illnesses, and draws to the conclusion that this poem is Lears bittersweet attempt to be seen as a person alone in a landscape.

Between Eros and Love

Love is a common theme in the Western poetic tradition and gives rise to deep reflections on the vicissitudes of human existence at least since some works of Greco-Roman antiquity. This paper addresses the idea of poetry as a remedy for the affections caused by this feeling, based on what is suggested by the intertextual dialogue of two works: Idylls 11 by Theocritus, which presents the song of the amorous sufferings of Polyphemus in the face of Galatea; Eclogues 2 by Virgil, where the shepherd Coridon sings of his unrequited love for the puer delicatus Alexis. With the aim of presenting these ancient poets, interpreting their metapoetic reflections and proposing a parallel understanding of their works, I will proceed on a philological basis to advance an intertextual interpretation of their positions.

Love’s Object, or, Unrequitable Love: Reflections on the literature of Passion between Rousseau and Percy Shelley

This discussion of the literature of unrequited love deals with the elusiveness of love’s object in the world, and asks whether that elusiveness may be intrinsic to the passion. If love is dependent upon the imagination, this implies vulnerability to disappointment or unappeasable longing: but it also makes space for the imagination as creative function or power. The unrequited lover in the texts under discussion is significantly also a writer, a maker of letters or books or poems; the artwork is understood less as a displacement of desire than as a model for its instantiation in the world. Texts discussed include Rousseau, Julie; Sterne, A Sentimental Journey; Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon; Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney; Percy Shelley, ‘On Love’, Hazlitt, Liber Amoris; and Plato, The Symposium.

Unquiet Qing: The Course of Lovesickness in the Modernization of Chinese Literature

Lovesickness (xiangsi bing), a disease of qing (sentiment, passion, feeling, desire, and love), emerged as a literary topos in China's medieval lyrical tradition and was developed through late imperial drama and fiction. This article examines narratives of lovesickness in popular literature—both fiction and drama—from the Song (960–1279) to the Qing (1644–1912), including some texts rarely discussed in English scholarship from the perspective of love writing. With thorough documentation, we present two classic plot patterns of the literary malady: one involving mutual affection of separated lovers, the other the one-sided passion, whether of unrequited (usually male) love or of one part of a couple longing for reunion. We argue that the notorious lovelorn figures in late Ming (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) legal cases and Qing scholar-beauty xiaoshuo novels made lovesickness a target for criticism by literati and prompted reflection and revision of traditional narratives. With the modernization and westernization of Chinese literature, this classical literary malady was finally “cured.” The disappearance of lovesickness reflects the gradual replacement of classical ways of thinking with a modern cognitive style and, simultaneously, the transition of Chinese literature from classical to modern.

The Pacman Song Meaning Interpreted through Semiotics Analysis

This study aimed to interpret the meaning of the song lyrics “Pacman” by EAJ. It used the semiotic analysis by Michael Riffaterre. The research was qualitative descriptive research. Data for the research was the lyrics of the Pacman song by EAJ. The research found that the heuristic reading process in the “Pacman” lyrics still discussed each line’s meaning. It was interpreted when a person loved someone and would give anything and did anything even if it ended painfully as long as he/she was together with his/her mate. Then “Pacman and Lover” was analyzed as a model. “Cause my head says no, but my phone keeps calling you.” and “Over and Over, like it’s Red Rover” was analyzed as a variant. “People who love to die for someone” was analyzed as a matrix. Last, “one-sided love” was explored as a potential hypogram, and “Pacman” was analyzed as an actual hypogram. This research concludes that the hidden meaning of “Pacman” lyrics is when a person loves someone deeply. Even if a loved one hurts him, he will still love his lover.

The Transformative Magic of Education in Walt Disney’s <em>The Sword in the Stone</em>

The Transformative Magic of Education in Walt Disney’s <em>The Sword in the Stone</em>

Здоровый образ жизни: самосохранительное поведение студенческой молодежи ЦФО

The article analyzes the level of self-preservation behavior and reveals the attitude of students of a number of universities of the Central Federal District to a healthy lifestyle. The author conducted a questionnaire and a series of in-depth interviews. It was found that girls are better informed than boys about the basic parameters of their health. Most of them, unlike young men, strive to follow a proper diet and eat healthy food every day. Girls, to a greater extent than boys, observe a normal healthy sleep regime, although insomnia is especially characteristic for students of technical universities, both girls and boys. It is determined that the causes of nervous breakdowns in girls are greater than in boys. They are more worried because of problems in personal relationships (unrequited love, etc.), as well as because of everyday troubles, educational and material difficulties. Unfortunately, it has been revealed that about one third of students, including medical university students, drink alcohol once a week. One fourth of the respondents drink alcohol 1–2 times a month, including medical students. According to the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that, in general, university students are mostly involved in physical activity, they are interested in sports. At the same time, girls, regardless of age and the material well-being of the family, take their health more seriously than boys, which is due to the peculiarities of their primary socialization. According to the results of the conducted research, the author suggests a number of measures for the development of self-preservation among students.

Untouchables in Love: An Investigation of Rebellion Against Casteism in Nagraj Manjule’s Select Features

The present article aims at analysing the revolutionary function of love in Marathi filmmaker Nagraj Manjule’s (b. 1978) selected feature films. The first two of Manjule’s feature films are set in a society ingrained in the vicious circle of the caste system. Fandry (2013) portrays the one-sided love story of a boy, and Sairat (2016) is based on the heart-rending story of Honour Killing in a realized love relationship between a lower-caste boy and an upper-caste girl. In contemporary India, the unprivileged people, whom the four-tier caste system addresses as untouchable, have been conditioned to eat, wear, work, and form human relationships in a particular manner that serves the purpose of casteism. The article will further explore how falling in love works as a constructive vehicle to carry forward the rebellion of both the protagonists against the inhuman norms of the destructive system. To discuss the nature of love in the films under discussion, the article takes the philosophical background from In Praise of Love (2009) by Alain Badiou, and The Radicality of Love (2015) by Srec ´ko Horvat, at the same time, it takes its arguments against casteism from the ideas of Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (1827–1890), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891-1956), and other alike thinkers in this line.