This book by a writer and sociologist is about the eternal and the new in love—about what exactly distinguishes love from infatuation and who among us is capable of love and who isn’t. The book discusses crises in love and family, changes in modern psychology, the prevailing culture of personal relationships in our society, and the sprouts of a new culture.
It talks about different types of love, how they depend on human character, and new, contemporary classifications of temperament and character. The book also discusses the new foundations of marriage that are being born today—laws of marital compatibility and other “lifebuoys” from our troubles.
In the book, the author collects the newest global discoveries about human beings and the main sides of family life—psychological, sexual, educational, and housekeeping.
Contents:
00_01_Annotation
01_00_“At the essence of the world”?
02_00_Beyond all times
03_01_To a new civilization
03_02_Storm of changes
03_03_Obstetrician or gravedigger?
03_04_What this book is about
03_05_What is “amourology”.
04_00_Voices of disbelief
05_00_Autoportrait of feelings
05_01_“Head, heart, body…”
05_02_Love for his love
05_03_Youth of maturity
06_00_The secret of secrets
06_01_Double optics of love
06_02_The main law of all emotions
06_03_Between mortals and immortals
06_04_From the depths of the soul
06_05_The great role of the subconscious
06_06_“You are me”
07_01_Semi-guess of a new riddle
07_02_Sensitives of love
07_03_How it was in life
07_04_With the eyes of an old man, a child, an adult
08_01_The effect of presence
08_02_Worldly greatness
08_03_Unhappy love
08_04_Death from love
08_05_What unhappy love gives us?
08_06_Culture of grief
08_07_Unique and repeatable in love
08_08_The kingdom of accidental necessities
09_01_Minimum of love
09_02_How love differs from infatuation
09_03_Ego-altruism
09_04_One-sided altruism
09_05_Self-sacrifice or self-limitation?
09_06_All people are capable of love?
09_07_Talent of love: two dimensions
09_08_Like you treat yourself, so you treat others….
09_09_Euclidean and non-Euclidean logic of love
09_10_Music for violin and balalaika
09_11_Oceanic feeling
09_12_Love and “supersocial consciousness”
09_13_Two essences of love and its social role
10_01_Simplification
10_02_The method of comprehending love
10_03_What is a universal human feeling
10_04_To planetary consciousness
10_05_Genus and species person
10_06_Journey into utopia
10_07_Love of Aphrodite of Cnidus
10_08_Beginning of individual love
10_09_Knights’ love
11_01_Two channels of influence
11_02_Where does “fear of family” come from?
11_03_Change of foundations
11_04_Archimedean lever
11_05_“Explosion of changes” and impoverishment of feelings
11_06_By the law of someone else’s age
11_07_The second enemy
11_08_How foreign words harm love
11_09_Language crisis—crisis of souls and feelings
11_10_“Explosion of contacts” and the personality of a person
11_11_Supercity and mass civilization
11_12_What is personality
11_13_Blindness of emergency springs
11_14_Overloads act on whom
11_15_Emotion—daughter of two rivals
11_16_Will thought displace emotion?
11_17_Heavier-blooded and thinner-blooded
11_18_Psychology of modern love
11_19_Love of the personality
11_20_Whom is there more of?
12_01_Which marriages are more successful?
12_02_Compatibility: contrast or similarity?
12_03_In space and on earth. Compatibility and “working together”
12_04_In what lies the value of melancholics?
12_05_Mire of inferiority
12_06_Strength of weak spots
12_07_Home happiness of the melancholic
13_01_To another, like mother to a child, to yourself—like a father….
13_02_Nervous structure and character structure
13_03_An adequate minimum of details
13_04_Extrovert, introvert, bivert
13_05_What are they like in family?
13_06_“Piecewise” and “wavy” souls
13_07_Nervous types of Pavlov
13_08_From four types to many
13_09_How nervous structure affects character
13_10_Slaves and masters of temperament
13_11_Energetics of temperaments
13_12_Who are you? Small test
14_01_Facets of character
14_02_Incompatible people or incompatible flaws?
14_03_What character do you have. Questionnaire
14_04_“Character formula”. How its foundations influence each other
14_05_Who are synthons and dissynthons
14_06_Attraction of poles
14_07_Contribution and discord
14_08_Under the yoke of Mars
14_09_The path to harmony is laid with concessions….
14_10_What a passionate one needs, and what a nervous one needs
14_11_The mirror of character and the mirror of personality
15_01_“In passion the world is focused and seems smaller…”
15_02_Storge, agape, eros, mania….
15_03_What coexists with what?
15_04_The key to types of love
15_05_Romantic love
15_06_Who has access to love-passion?
15_07_Utopian feeling
15_08_Fantasies and “the Oedipus effect”
16_01_Who is fit and who isn’t fit for marriage?
16_02_Accentuated personalities
16_03_How to protect a family—from whom and how
16_04_Convicted loners
16_05_“Only the morning of love is good”?
16_06_The more complex the people, the shorter happiness….
16_07_Self-attenuating feeling
16_08_One-lovers and many-lovers
16_09_The mysterious love of Natasha Rostova
16_10_Sails of feelings and motors of consciousness
16_11_Three ignorances
16_12_Better a crane in the sky than a tit in the hand?
16_13_Feeling that is found or feeling that creates?
17_01_Culture of choice
17_02_Family love
17_03_Are love and family compatible?
17_04_Foundations for happiness
17_05_Do hardships unite people or push them apart?
17_06_Algebra of happiness
17_07_Simple and higher demands
17_08_Common interests and autonomous spheres
17_09_Law of value
17_10_Dissent
18_01_Can it be without love?
18_02_Loving by heart, by reason, by calculation
18_03_Initial feeling or character?
18_04_Can love exist in marriages not based on love?
18_05_Two forms of happiness
18_06_Wife older or husband older?
18_07_Different countries and different skin
18_08_Is Aquarius compatible with Virgo?
18_09_Sprouts of the theory of compatibility
18_10_Something about the laws of compatibility.