Love and other emotions on the process of feeling - Brown, Jason W. 1938- (Karnac Books, 2012)
Cover; Copyright; Content; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE. Falling in love; CHAPTER TWO. Theory of the emotions; CHAPTER THREE. Love and desire; CHAPTER FOUR. The reconciliation of the emotions: love, envy, and hate; CHAPTER FIVE. Desire for things; CHAPTER SIX. Love and pathology: a note on psychoanalytic theory; CHAPTER SEVEN. Pornography and perversion; CHAPTER EIGHT. Kindness and compassion; CHAPTER NINE. Belief and value; CHAPTER TEN. Philosophy of romantic love; REFERENCES.
This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory of the nature of value