Ahem, with all due respect to the war, what do you do when the release date of your episode on "The Art of Love" coincides with a timeline where the only sound is that of battle? But that's love for you—unpredictable and uncontrollable, even though that's precisely what Erich Fromm tried to say the opposite. By the way, Tostoy published Anna Karenina while Russia was at war. Did Anna Karenina know if love truly conquers all? Did she hear Ibn Sina's diagnosis of her condition? Did she hear about his miraculous cure for lovers? Can we rely on Freud's interpretation of our toxic relationship patterns? And what about Erich Fromm's analysis? Can that formidable force, capable of overwhelming even the most rational and composed individuals, truly be controlled? Can love be transformed into an art or a skill that we learn and then, God willing, practice?

Sources 👇
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy, First published, 1878
The Canon of Medicine – Ibn Sina - Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiya - Beirut - 1999
Metaphysik der Geschlechtsliebe, Arthur Schopenhauer, from Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Volume II
Kjerlighedens Gjerninger (Works of Love) – Søren Kierkegaard - Howard Vincent Hong (Translator), Edna Hatlestad Hong (Editor), 1998 by Princeton University Press.

Über einen besonderen Typus der Objektwahl beim Manne – Sigmund Freud. Include: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens (1910–1912)
Zur Einführung des Narzißmus – Sigmund Freud (1914)
The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm - First published 1956

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