power

[Catherine Driscoll]

Love is a social relation and certainly also a power relation.
Of course love involves power. Always. In many forms. And between parents and 
children, the whole idea of "responsibility" is certainly also about power.

Catherine

Quoting joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com>:


> At 08:50 AM 12/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Yes, and, moreover, there is no social relation that does not involve
> power.
> 
> Is love a social relation? I ask because in my experience love and power 
> are orthagonal. You can't have both. Even in the relationship between 
> parents and children, what the parents have is not so much power as 
> responsibility.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> 
>