Keyword: «любовь»

This article analyzes the concept of love and its influence on life and marriage satisfaction. The results of the study show that positive ideas of love contribute to increased life and marriage satisfaction, while negative attitude to love lowers the marital satisfaction of married couples. The obtained data can be used in married couples consultation.

The article is devoted to the topical issue of a modern person confusion in the face of the "end of history" (F. Fukuyama): large collective projects, that invariably supplied a "historical" perspective to a "private" being, had exhausted themselves by the end of the twentieth century. However, this fact does not in any way cancel the request of individual existence for historical projection: the need for self-projecting of future is the fundamental attribute of human existence; the way of organizing time by individual consciousness (E. Husserl). The ability to handle time becomes today a key condition for authentic (joint-individual and, as a consequence, collective) historical existence. The pulsing present, which includes both the past and the future at the same time, becomes a platform for an "accurate" historical gestalt because of the "temporary fields" imposition (E. Husserl). Each taken separately modern "adult" (E. Erikson) individually experiences the "end of history" as a personal drama (the final resolution of the identity crisis in the "middle of life" (E. Erikson)), in which (with proper treatment of the past as a "fragment" of the present) he finds sources of further growth (a meaningful increase in volume (development of care meta-virtue) and the power of the ego) and personal future projecting. This idea of history (as a collective future emerging from authentic "personal" / local projects) is especially important for Russia, which is still concerned with the search for a "national idea" in the format of a "grand historical project": "the end of history" has come for everybody.

The study of the phenomenon of love (and the erotic feeling of love, in particular, as the standard that still remains in terms of explicating human nature) goes back to Plato’s philosophy, who laid down in general the classical tradition of treating love as “ideal” (“Platonic love”). Thus, as a mirror reflecting the nature of man ("spirit - body"), erotic love reveals all axiological preferences of the classical philosophical tradition, which distinguishes the first component as more significant one. “Platonic love” in the context of the relationship between a man and a woman, while structuring the feeling of love, emphasizes spiritual aspect (“love - sex”). Subsequent sociohistorical epochs through consistently implemented sexual and erotic revolutions demonstrated the possibilities of restructuring erotic love (“love - erotica - sex”), as well as limiting the axiological accents of “non-platonic” types of love (sexuality; eroticism). The article is devoted to the search for the essence of the erotic love feeling (as reflecting human nature most fully), its structure and specific manifestation (with organic merits and demerits).