Science : "What is Love?" / Lone Frank / reiko 枇谷

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SOCIETY
The works awarded the Cultural Honor Award (Literature Category) of the Danish Cultural Agency are now in Japan! The author, who lost his 13-year-old husband to cancer, begins to explore what love is. Love characterizes human beings as a species. Love characterizes each one of us. This seems to be the key. The best way to truly know yourself is to understand how people have faced love and to look for its cause. Therefore, the author begins to expose his own inner self and looks for a general view by asking personal questions. * Why does an attachment relationship with a parent in childhood affect a romantic relationship in adulthood? * Has a "gene for an affair" been discovered? * Does he have a "soul mate"? * He begins to expose his own inner self and looks for a general view by asking personal questions. * Why does an attachment relationship with a parent in childhood affect a romantic relationship in adulthood? * "gene for an affair" been discovered? * Does he have a fate partner (soul mate)? * He looks back on his beloved father, his parents' divorce, memories of his mother who died of breast cancer in high school, his father's death from alcoholism, an affair and pneumonia, his discord with his younger brother who is far from his age. He looks back on his online encounters with other people, his lack of empathy for others, his lack of feeling, and his cold personality who doesn't care about people around him. In addition, he confronts extremely personal conflicts, such as whether he is a sign of an immature spirit that tries to resist from becoming an adult. His past memories and conversations with researchers such as psychologist Asger Newman lead to a grand spiritual journey across multiple disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, biology, and evolution, on various themes surrounding love, including changes in communication due to the advent of the Internet, changes in attachment research in psychology, brain movements caused by love and secreted chemicals.