Compare and Contrast Two Theories of Love.
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Flora Kaminski Compare and Contrast Two Theories of Love In "Contributions to the psychology of love," Freud (1910) described the field of love as, up until then, having "left it to the creative writer to depict for us the 'necessary conditions for loving'... In consequence it becomes inevitable that science should concern herself with the same materials whose treatment by artists has given enjoyment to mankind for thousands of years." Love, though influenced by many of the same factors as liking cannot be categorised in the same classification; there is sufficient empirical evidence to suggest that it is a quite different phenomenon. It is not simply an intensification of liking, yet here is where the simplicity in classification ends. The very meaning of love, its origins and cause are all subject to speculation, leading to the avocation of several theories about love and its dynamics. From the beginning of the 20th Century...

