Psychologically created physical symptoms, such as upset stomach, change in appetite, insomnia, dizziness, and confusion.Obsessive–compulsive disorder – Preoccupation and hoarding valueless but superstitiously resonant items.Stress – high blood pressure, pain in chest and heart, acute insomnia sometimes brought on by a " crush".Loss of concentration and difficulty sleeping.Euphoria, that is, abnormally elevated mood, inflated self-esteem, extravagant gift giving.Īccording to Tallis, some of the symptom clusters shared with being lovestruck include: Replacing the flatness of ordinary experience is a fullness". "For love-struck victims, the world appears altered. Symptoms Ī 2005 article by Frank Tallis suggested that being utterly romantically lovestruck should be taken more seriously by professionals. As early as 1915, Freud asked rhetorically, "Isn't what we mean by 'falling in love' a kind of sickness and craziness, an illusion, a blindness to what the loved person is really like?" Half a century later, in 1971, Hans Loewald took up the theme, comparing being in analysis "to the passions and conflicts stirred up anew in the state of being in love which, from the point of view of the ordinary order and emotional tenor and discipline of life, feels like an illness, with all its deliciousness and pain". The twentieth-century saw the concept of love-sickness reconceptualised by psychoanalysis. Other sources, such as Tristram Shandy, describe the process by referring to it as the act of being shot with a gun: "I am in love with Mrs Wadman, quoth my uncle Toby – She has left a ball here – added my uncle Toby – pointing to his breast". The concept is associated with a set of metaphors attempting to convey the speed and intensity of falling in love by describing it as a physical process of falling or being struck.Īlternately, falling in love is often described with reference to Cupid's arrow. While being lovestruck has historically been viewed as a short-lived mental illness brought on by the intense changes associated with romantic love, this view has been out of favor since the humoral model was abandoned, and since the advent of modern scientific psychiatry. you are hit in your heart by the emotion of love". On the contrary Mary, in the film, is seen as an innocent love-sick girl who has been pining for the Crown Prince since she met him as a child.Being lovestruck means having mental and physical symptoms associated with falling in love: "Love-struck . Penelope Andrew: Remembering Jennifer Jones and A Perfect Afternoon at the Movies 2010 They also know that we are too stupid, short sighted, smitten, and love-sick to take a closer look at the world and see that they are wolves in sheep's clothing.Ġ5 « September « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009Ĭonsummate actress Jennifer Jones makes the leap from an innocent, romantic ghost who enchants a love-sick Joseph Cotten in Portrait of Jennie (1948 pictured below) to the vixen and adulteress Emma Bovary surrounded by admirers (above) in Vincent Minnelli's adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovery (1949) two of the widely contrasting performances just one year apart in the underrated, extraordinary career of Jennifer Jones. The MASSIVE campaign to turn every American into a brainwashed, credit card, pharmaceutical, medical testing, love-sick, celebrity junkie. Star Trek: Favorite and Least Favorite Guest Characters from TOS 2009 The Chief Engineer of the Flagship of the Fleet spent the entire episode whining like a love-sick schoolboy and generally acting like a teenager. On the hour, a love-sick man sang a song below the window. The American people became spoiled, foolish, brainwashed, and love-sick. Transforming them into pathetic, naive, love-sick fools who turn around and buy any product or service given away to a cheering studeo audiance or endorsed by their idol.
Then tell those love-sick people to run out and buy a product or service because you say so.
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