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In six pages this paper examines the cultural aspects of love and how it impacts upon intimate and marital relationships with the Jungian psychological concept of individuation and its impact on relationships among the topics discussed. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Romantic love is the goal every person seeks to achieve to experience a completeness of being, but after that initial sexual rush of falling in love fades, sustaining it
in an ongoing intimate or marital relationship can be challenging. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung, his followers, and the post-Jungians that have expanded his theories have devoted considerable study to the
cultural effects of love, and how romantic relationships reflect a persons journey toward individuation. According to Jung, individuation represents both a natural drive (like hunger or sex) and a
process that evolves as people and relationships mature (Samuels, 1990). Individuation is also a psychological occurrence and a spiritual connection one person establishes with another (Samuels, 1990). Romantic
love is influenced by how the person views the object of his or her affection and the relationship expectations associated with the other partner. Romantic love commences with the passionate
phenomenon known as falling in love. In her book, Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose, Professor Ayala Malach Pines (2000) observed, "Falling in love is
not only a positive experience in and of itself, it is an important experience within the context of peoples emotional life and within the life of their romantic relationship" (p.
235). But in this critical early phase of any relationship, people are often so enamored with being in love that the focus is less on the the other person
as he or she actually exists, but in the romantic image that is projected (Pines, 2000). Romantic love is an ideal, and early in a relationship, lovers tend to
idealize their partners and fail to recognize the flaws and shortcomings that make them human. Culture certainly determines the orientation preference of romantic love as heterosexual (Stevens, 2002).
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