Abstract

The article discusses de conceptualization of human passionate love from historical, cultural and psychological approaches. From these contexts people have constructed and deconstructed the meanings of love with confusion and ambivalence. This fuzziness has lead to variability in social and family interplay, even in intimate lives. A tension of meanings entails contradictory experiences and aspects of love, for example, care and desire. Diverse meanings and communication scenarios are developed in a coexisting cultural complexity from the focus on family as a social unit and source of parenting, through the detachment of sexuality from breeding that enhanced emotional needs of the couple’s members, to the current society of lessen intimacy and compromise. New ways of amorous relations, more focused on passion and fellowship have emerged. Passionate love when is developed, faces the feelings of uniqueness and legitimacy with the fragmentation and invisibility promoted by post-industrial society. Passionate human love from a perspective of high psychological functions is uniqueness and intimacy. It entails complicity and privacy even secrecy. It is an intersubjective phenomenon that involves moving around the edges of the self and the other who are involved in the experiences of abandonment and surrender. An expansion of the self occurs, the relationship pushes the development of selves and the co-construction of weness. Passionate love is an inverbalizable experience that has led humans to resort to poetry getting free from grammatical structures to express its complexity. These productions describe feelings of plenitude, fusion and unicity in a hypergeneralized quality. Love is a metalevel, extraordinary experience, producing an aesthetic experience. Through hipergeneralization experiences are imbued with full sense by ambiguous but powerful symbols in the semiotic process and chronogenesis. Passionate love that is ritualized and mediated by the erotic scene emerges as a deeply embodied phenomenon. The notion of temporality and chronogenesis broadens the understanding of the dynamics of love addressing the essential question about existence. It is in the temporary borders of identity that passionate love arises. This space is in between being another and myself and also merging with him or her. It is an experience that defies sanity. The eternal dance of this madness is the anguish of not solving the existential loneliness and being debated on the edge of closeness and distance, of life and extinction.