Surrealism laid great stress on the liberating power of sexuality. ... But what mostly mattered to the surrealists was freedom itself. ... For the French surrealists, the desire for freedom linked the ...

Anna checks her phone dozens of times a day, waiting for a message that never seems to come. A glance, a pause, or even a single word from the man she desires is enough to keep her awake at night, ...

Sometimes we 'love' too much and it hurts too much to let go; rejection from our significant other feels like the end of the world as if our whole life has come to a standstill, a dead end as if we've ...

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Overwhelming, distressing, all-consuming: this little-known form of romantic longing can have a devastating impact.

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Interestingly, the term “limerence” has come back in style. This term can be found in the 1979 book Love and Limerence by Dorothy Tennov. Limerence is “first and foremost a condition of cognitive ...

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Love comes in all shapes and sizes. Here’s how to spot the most maladaptive and debilitating form. Love addiction, also known as affective dependence, is a condition where an individual develops an ...

Obsessive love is a vital theme in modern fiction and its most powerful and enduring explorations—Tolstoy and Proust, Fitzgerald and Nabokov—have been in novels of broad thematic scope. Anna Karenina ...