The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization

The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization - Translated from the Sixth German Edition

It seems at first sight as if Nature had endowed man with the procreative impulse solely with a view to the preservation of the species, and regardless of the individual; and yet it is undeniable that in the high estimation of this impulse the individual was not forgotten. (On the Art of Attaining an Advanced Age, vol. i., p. 2; Berlin, 1813). [2] The two constituents of modern love The purposes of the species and the purposes of the individual Insufficiency of the former for the understanding of love The individualization of love through the process of civilization The organic interconnexion between the bodily and the mental manifestations of love Possibilities of future development Victory of the love of civilized man over the elemental force of the sexual impulse Our own time a turning-point in the history of love. [3] The sexuality of the modern civilized manthe sum, that is to say, of the phenomena of sexual love dependent upon and associated with the sexual impulseis the result of a process of development lasting many thousands of years. Therein, as in a mirror, we may see an accurate reflection of all the phases of the bodily and mental history of the human race. Anyone who wishes to understand modern love in all its complexity must, in the first place, succeed in informing himself, not merely regarding the first foundations of the feeling of love in the grey primeval age, but, in addition, as to the manner in which that feeling has been transformed and enriched in the course of the history of civilization. For modern love is a complex of two constituents. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 60968
Author: Bloch, Iwan
Release Date: Dec 19, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Paul, Eden, 1865-1944