| Love, this eminent humane experience, has been explored not only by writers
and poets, but also by philosophers, psychologists and even experimental
scientists. This paper aims to discuss a novel aspect in phenomenology of
love, as the concept of destructive and constructive nature of love, which is
to the best of our knowledge, presented for the first time. The fundamental
idea of this paper was obtained from verses of Hafiz, then polished by
theories of Robert Cloninger and several other thinkers in the field of human
emotions. Many verses of Hafiz display love experience as a necessary step
towards growth, in a way that could be evinced further by the development
of the 'self-aware psych' introduced by Cloninger. He introduces the 'selfaware
psych' as one of the three constituting domains of human mind and
personality, the intuitive essence bringing integrity for personality. If selfaware
psych flourishes by favorable growth and development, it would
prepare the ground for creativity, wisdom and well-being, otherwise,
personality disorders would be contingent. The destructive and constructive
nature of love, towards development of self-awareness and mental growth, is
further determined by re-explaining the proposed theory of 'ego as a
complex' by Carl Jung, the theory of 'network of intentionality' by John
Searle, and the theory of 'emotional processing' by Edna Foa and Michael
Kozak in this context. |