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Carrie Jenkins. Sad Love
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
Sad Love. Romance and the Search for Meaning
Preface
Notes
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Notes
1 The Paradox of Happiness. As dreamers do
Happiness cannot be pursued
I give myself very good advice (but I very seldom follow it)
The taming of happiness
Notes
2 The Romantic Paradox. Dreamlover
They can’t really be happy
Mad love
The pursuit of happy ever after
Notes
3 Daimons. The ghosts of old meanings
Eudaimonia vs. the Paradox of Happiness
Eudaimonia vs. the Romantic Paradox
Job-crafting
Love-crafting
Notes
4 Know Thyself. Choice problems
Search for the hero inside yourself
If it makes you happy (why the hell are you so sad)?
If you’re eudaimonic and you know it
Notes
5 Eudaimonic Love. Love and “negative” emotions
Production and consumption
Buy or build
Now what?
Notes
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Carrie Jenkins
I had some questions. What if I’m not happy? What if I’m sad – or worse, depressed? Does that mean I’m no longer in love? Am I now unloving? Unlovable?
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For me personally, the hate just kept coming. Every time an interview or article appeared in a high-visibility venue, a stream of nasty feedback would follow in its wake. The public eye does not look kindly on women with ideas. (This is not a new phenomenon – women have not historically been welcomed with open arms to the pursuit of wisdom. The internet just offers us new ways of burning and drowning our witches.)
At the time it was a bit of a blur. But, in retrospect, the hate fell into three buckets. First there was a bucket of hate for feminists. One time, my Twitter account was drowned in hate after I wrote an opinion piece for the Spanish newspaper El País, the headline of which (possibly the only part many people read) was “Polyamory is a feminist issue.” The article was published in Spanish and most of the reactions were, likewise, in Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish, but I was surprised at how much I could understand.4
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