LOVE & HATE EMOTIONS – ARE THEY THE SAME OR DIFFERENT?
Consider this?
Can love become perverse and destructive?
Can joy ever be inappropriate?
Can weeping/crying ever become excessive?
Can nurturing reach a point of excess?
Before making a valued judgment, give it some thought across the lateral plane.
Food for thought:
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both love and hate can be powerfully dangerous emotions, just as despair
and elation.
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every one of these human emotions can be perverted and twisted to fit any
psychological mood and line of thought.
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both love and hate can dominate your life, emotionally, physically and
intellectually.
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hate can be a healthy emotion to have (a basic survival instinct).
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as there is no agreement on which emotion hate is closely aligned (in the
psychoanalytical world) ‘hate’ cannot therefore be viewed as an ‘emotion’.
For example, most people in the psychoanalytical world places the word
‘hate’ along side words such as disgust, contempt or fear either singly or
combinations of these but rarely with other words. So, is it is self-evident that
‘hate’ is an emotion, why is there so much disagreement as to its emotional
lineage? (Dr. Burris-eminent Canadian psychologist).
According to Burris, hate is more aligned with the word ‘motive’ and whilst this may
seem a distraction by lay people, to psychologists it is an important assumption and
statement when you realise that having a ‘motive’ for anything, provides energization for
individuals and groups. In other words, it provides focus, directed towards the attainment
of a particular goal.
If you wish to read more about this subject, try the bibliography below:
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