Chapter 11 Chapter 4 Mania and Sublimation-1

This poem describes the miraculous mystery of people's psychological life, the mystery of people's inner world that has not yet been discovered. This person in front of you, He works side by side with you... With what stethoscope can we see into his mind? What kind of car can he drive into his ideal sky? how to decipher The atmospheric phenomenon of his thought? how to calculate Dongsheng of hope, passionate moon, sad eclipse, Depth of disappointment? Bulgarian poetess Lisaveta Bagliana Love is indeed complex, which makes its analysis difficult.The elements that constitute love are diverse and complicated, and the mutual influence between them must form a certain structure.So what kind of structure is love in the end, is it similar to madness or can it be controlled by reason?What is its intrinsic nature? 

 The Dilemma of the Infatuated In order to make a scientific judgment on this issue so that we can gain inspiration, we must clarify the main concepts that will be used.First of all, what is reason? The original text in English is reason, which means reason, the ability and intelligence of logical reasoning, rational thinking or analysis and judgment.Answers to this reasonable question within the realm of psychology and epistemology vary.The exposition of it is very complicated and not the focus of our discussion.Hegel's statement is more classic: Reason is "a form of thinking that properly and purely unreasonably realizes and reveals the universal dialectical essence of thinking, its inherent creative nature."Such a tongue-twisting connotation is incomprehensible, and everyone can't tell what it means, but they all understand its meaning.It embodies man's undoubted and supreme ability to recognize the concrete content of reality.

As for "madness," it is of course not in the sense of insanity, but of being at the mercy of spontaneous forces, of the unconscious, out of control, fanatical, hyper-excited adaptation to the environment. "Madness" is the opposite of rational behavior.Its most important aspects are as follows: taking actions for which goals are not understood, often with disastrous consequences; loss of the ability to fight with emotions; inappropriate responses to a given situation. For love, of course, it cannot be simply described as "crazy" or rational.This one-size-fits-all approach is also rather crazy.Because people in it often have unpredictable behaviors, or look like a crazy neuropath, or like a wise man, maybe this repetition shows a kind of madness.

The fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz said that drunkards and lovers "are of the same kind."For both types of people, life can bring joy, even temporarily banishing the light of reason.The seventeenth-century Persian writer Inayadullah Kambhu strongly expressed this "irrational" nature of human beings in "The Biography of the Faithful Wife and the Unfaithful Wife": "There is no doubt that once the heart is dominated by the almighty love, Ruled by the heart, once the heart raises the banner of lust high into the clouds and beats the drums of madness, then reason...can only endure shame and humiliation. Love...is a rough sea, reason is just twinkling sand, lust is a hurricane that loots the world, understanding But a flickering light. A cotton ball soaked in the ointment of reason cannot heal the wounds of mad love's dart."

The ancient Greek poetess Sappho, who was burned like a flame because of unsatisfied love, once lamented: "I am burning with desire, like crazy." Another ancient Greek poet who was a hundred years earlier than her was Hercules. "Sweet and languid little Cupid," says Siod, ​​"conquers the heart in the bosom, and drives all men out of reason."Dutch writer Erasmus believed that love is not a triumph of reason, but a triumph of stupidity.He wrote in his book "Ode to Fools": "A man is accustomed to talking nonsense when he is in love, and he will do any absurd thing in order to force a woman to surrender to his lust." Rousseau said: "In the presence of those I love, I have more than once in my life been seduced by irrational passions, so that I have become blind, deaf, and trembling with excitement..."

The charm of love lies in its mystery and spontaneity, without cause, in spite of everything and in spite of everything.The illusory haze seems to be the atmosphere covering the kingdom of love.Goethe once wrote in his autobiographical work "Poetry and Truth": "The beauty of sprouting spring is that it neither consciously feels its own birth nor considers its own end; it is so joyful and clear that it perceives It’s going to be a disaster if you don’t.” Stendhal also has a deep understanding of the power and fanaticism of love. In a book, he described Martel's passionate confession of love to Julien Sorel: "I would rather abandon my reason and let you come Be my lord!" In one of his novels, the paranoid Oscar Wilde declared that love is but a "dream."Under the influence of love, people will lose their real sense of real life.In Oscar Wilde's view, love is an orchid with a beautiful appearance and a strong fragrance, but it is full of toxins, which can poison people's consciousness and make people full of unrealistic fantasies.

A lover, if there is no real illness, although he is "overwhelmed" by feelings, he has not stopped being a human being, that is to say, he is still thinking, has not lost his ability to judge, and can still foresee certain consequences , Be able to consciously act in accordance with the moral and aesthetic standards governed by the value and rational law system formed by him.Sometimes wild, unrestrained emotions stimulate the intellect.Otherwise, it cannot be explained that under normal circumstances, lovers often show extraordinary wit, and sometimes they show the unique creative "eyes" of genius minds.The works of many poets and writers were created at this time.

Sex represents a level of spiritual renewal.Represents the noble and romantic feelings of human sentiment. Yes, man is superior to nature in that he has reason, but is love subordinate to reason? Pascal, a French philosopher in the seventeenth century, is one of the typical representatives of rationalist love theory.He said: "Man was created for thinking." He believes that rational understanding leads to emotional enlightenment, and those who love passionately are great and enlightened. Know what he loves.Love comes from reason and is supported by reason.To love is to focus the mind on a particular object.According to Pascal, even the strongest emotions carry the stamp of reason.But according to his reasoning, are love and reason really the same in essence? Can the strength of emotion really be measured by the strength of thought? Pascal believes that everything is an appendage of reason, and love is incompatible with all kinds of surly behavior , real life overturns this view with irrefutable reasons.Extreme rationality makes love lack sentimentality, and blunt theories just turn people off.But the passionate and crazy confession is the praise of life.

Even Goethe, Weimar's Apollo, the genius who combined thought and feeling in his creations, distinguished love from intellect.When he was talking to his secretary Ekelman, he joked: "Does love have anything in common with wisdom? In a young woman, what we love is completely different. What we love is her Her beauty, youth, sharpness, credulity, full of personality, are her mistakes, eccentricities, and many other inexplicable things." According to Goethe, if a woman's wisdom is "excellent", we "respect" it.But intelligence "is by no means the attribute capable of kindling and arousing passions in us."Goethe said: "Wisdom can make us very attached, if we are loving."

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many celebrities who held this view, for example, from Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, etc. to Hegel, and this view reached its peak.Abstract and obscure views cannot solve the essence of the problem.This view underestimates the role of emotion and the importance of the pleasure that love has at the same time for one's personal happiness. Love is born of instinct and inspired by thought.It combines many aspects of human nature.If love is only out of instinct and irrational, then it will not contain the charm of spiritual civilization, it will only appear as a momentary passion.If love were only rational, if it came only from thought, then the soul would be terribly lonely, and without the invigorating heart of love, its vitality would be exhausted.

Belinsky once wrote: "Love needs rational content, just as burning needs grease." People know their daily words and deeds.True love must depend on "mutual respect, the establishment of good human dignity, and not only on the indulgence of emotion and the drive of whimsy." For the vitality of love, any theoretical interpretation is nonsense. True love is like a romantic, mythical voyage down the lanes where the rational and the irrational intertwine.The essence of love is condensed by the individual's physiological, aesthetic, ethical and psychological values.The irrationality and rationality are interpenetrated into a glass of intoxicating love nectar.Love is instinct and thought, spontaneity and self-consciousness, momentary passion and moral cultivation, madness and rationality, fullness of feeling and unrestrained imagination, satiety and hunger, cruelty and mercy, trouble and joy , is pain and pleasure, indifference and desire, light and darkness.Love melts all human experience into one furnace.