Real Love

“Real Love” is neither beautiful nor romantic. It is not a wonderful daydream nor can it be made into a nice story about a happy life forever thereafter. It has nothing to do with building a successful marriage nor with holding the family together. However, it does not provide a justification for isolation.

Our mutual wage is that real love is a total nightmare. This multiparadigmatic course shall explore the confusing and often contradictory modalities of love that currently exist within the domain of poetry, religious scripture, sociological scholarship, philosophy, art/painting, literature, and psychoanalysis. Our guiding question is as follows: is there anything worth salvaging in the damaged and disfigured, lonely and monstrous, contemporary concept of love?