| Summary: | Love is a state of mind which is intangible and encircles a web of complex and various relations and definitions. Love as a concept has been defined and interpreted differently by various philosophers and academics for thousands of years, from the Athenian philosopher Plato to French literary theorist Roland Barthes and beyond.
In this thesis, I discuss the identities of love between the lover and the subject of love; the beloved, and argue against the ideal authenticity of love being the experience of alterity, and instead an experience governed by the lover, delineating the alterity as the 'other'.
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