Lamentations of Love

• Main Author: Ong, Anna Liza Gankee
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Elegiac poetry; Laments; Alienation (Philosophy); Literature > Philosophy; Love; Mythology; Man; Philosophical theology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1623
• Institution: De La Salle University

Lamentations of Love is a study on how human beings, in search of meaning, have turned to look at romantic love as the answer. In the human being's view that romantic love is the answer to his alienation, the term love became an intangible mess because of the meaning and significance humans gave it. This thesis explores the history of love how love was first regarded as a spiritual route towards enlightenment, into a sickness or madness, into a shallow game or sport, and into the one true meaning in life. This thesis also analyzes on how myths and stories about tragic star-crossed lovers contribute to the misconceptions of love. It also explores how love is commonly seen as all good, is not, and explores the dark dimension of love, how love is often connected to suffering, death and imagination. It also discusses how romantic love, seen as an alternative of religion, as a cult, is only a temporary escape from alienation.