power

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Fri Dec 6 02:46:16 PST 2002


Even if I believed you could love someone in such a way as to do them unremitting good without any benefit to yourself, this would still be a form of power -- that capacity...

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


> At 11:04 PM 12/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> I don't see this. We may be mired in a conflation of "power to" vs "power
> over," but it has always seemed to me that love relinquishes both power and
>
> the desire for power. But I suppose this has to do with whether you "love"
> someone only to the extent that they are a source of gratification for you
> or wether you love someone and therefore wish them and help them to be
> free.
>



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