Passionate and Companionate Love

1.In the last part of her essay, “Passionate and Companionate Love,” Elaine Hatfield reviews evidence in clinical psychology to develop an account of the nature of and requirements for intimate relationships or intimacy. Explain the key features of Hatfield’s account. Then consider how this account relates to Carl Jung’s discussion of genuine relationships and their requirements. The authors utilize different theoretical frameworks and vocabularies but they may in fact be saying some of the same things. About what, if anything, do Hatfield and Jung agree? About what, if anything, do Hatfield and Jung disagree? Whatever your own view, be sure to explain your reasoning.
2.Elaine Hatfield argues that passionate and companionate love are two distinctive experiences. What are the defining features of passionate love? What are the defining features of companionate love? Draw upon your answers to these questions in order to analyze one of the central relationships in Crazy, Stupid, Love (Glen Ficarra and John Requa, 2011). Explain how the relationship illustrates and/or expands upon Hatfield’s discussion.
3.Explain Aristophanes’ account of eros (romantic love) in the Symposium by reviewing his story about how it originated and what the experience of love is like. Based on Socrates’ speech regarding eros, how do you think he would evaluate Aristophanes’ account? Would he like it? If so, why? Would he dislike it? If so, why? Would he like some elements of it and dislike others? Whatever view you take, be sure to explain your reasoning and to specify why you think Socrates take the view you articulate.
4.According to Sigmund Freud, due to their failure to resolve their Oedipal feelings during childhood, most straight men will struggle to be sexually fulfilled within their primary romantic relationships and will cope with this by using debasement. Explain Freud’s view of debasement and why it enables men to cope, albeit in a way Freud considers unhealthy. If Freud’s view is correct, what are the implications for women and their sexuality? How will the split that most straight men experience between their sexual experience within their primary relationships and their sexual experience with their debased partners affect the way that female sexuality is understood and experienced.