Passion
Passion (increased, but as a concept coming off: fervor ) is a the mind completely poignant emotion . It encompasses forms of love and hate , but is also used for religious, moral or political enthusiasm and describes the intensive pursuit of goals by, for example, art lovers, collectors or animal lovers. In today's everyday language use, a connection with “ suffering ” from which it is derived is hardly present; "Passion" is sometimes neutral, usually even has a positive connotation (see also love relationship ).
The ancient philosophy of the Stoa saw the mastery of passions ( affect control ) as an important goal in life. The moderation (in particular the desire ) is one of the four Platonic cardinal virtues .
René Descartes interpreted the “passions” as natural mental outflows of the creatural corporeality of man, but obliges man - as a being at the same time endowed with a soul - to control it through the will and to overcome it through rational impulses such as B. selfless renunciation or generous forgiveness .
The expression was introduced into the German language by Philipp von Zesen (1619–1689) for the Latin word passio . In fiction and theater , passion is a frequent topic or subject .
Movies
“Passion” is a theme in many films and is often mentioned in the title, e. B .:
- Floods of Passion (1926, Greta Garbo's US debut film )
- Maze of Passion (1925, by Alfred Hitchcock )
- Stormy Passion (1992, England)
- Legends of Passion (1994, USA)
- Passionate Knight (2001, USA)
- Love, Lie, Passion (US soap, since 1968)
- Shadow of Passion (US soap, since 1973)
- Vincent van Gogh - A Life of Passion (1956, USA)
- Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion (2009, France)
- Burning Fire of Passion (1938, USA)
- Emmanuelle - In the vicious circle of passion
stories
- Passion (2004), by Alice Munro
See also
- Passion (In many languages, the term for Jesus' ordeal and the term for passion are identical or derived.)
- Desire = mental drive to remedy a deficiency experience plus desire to acquire the object or condition that appears suitable to remedy this deficiency.
- obsession
- Limbic system = a functional unit of the brain that is used to process emotions and create instinctual behavior.
- motivation
- Neosexual revolution = unspectacular, profound cultural change in sexual relations and sexual morality in the countries of the "western world". It began and continues after the sexual revolution of the 1968 movement.
literature
- Gertraude Krell, Richard Weiskopf: The arrangement of passions . Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85165-586-9 .
- David Schnarch : The Psychology of Sexual Passion . Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-25137-2 (with a foreword by Jürg Willi ).
- C. Juliane Vieregge: The pearl in the oyster - a plea for more passion . Pabst, Lengerich / Berlin / Vienna 2012, 272 pages, ISBN 978-3-89967-728-7 .
