Lovedespite being such an abstract and complex subject when it comes to defining it, it could be said that it is that set of feelings that bind one person to another, or to things, ideasamong other alternatives.
Although especially love is directly linked to what we could call as romantic lovethat is, that love that implies a passionate relationship between two people, is also correct to apply to other types of relationships such as family lovethe one who feels among friends and many others, always in all cases, it will be a feeling that causes great affection and esteem for who is the recipient of our love, without fear of exaggerating we could say that it is the strongest feeling that can be felt by another person or entity.
Now, once described and with the clearest picture of what love is, we will deal with a type of love, popularly known as platonic love.
He idealizes being loved
Platonic love is one that is characterized by the fact that the person who feels it forms an ideal image of the person they love without actually establishing any kind of real relationship with them other than the platonic one., that is to say, everything happens through thoughts, nothing ever materializes in platonic love. “Juan has felt platonic love for his history teacher for years.”
Meanwhile, the idealization that borders on the conception of the perfect is the most distinctive characteristic of this type of feeling.
That unattainable love that due to various circumstances cannot materialize and in which there may be a sexual component, but that occurs mentally, imaginatively, but not physically, it is a platonic love. in this form of love Illusion is the foundation on which love is sustained and above all things, he gives special importance to the spiritual rather than to the physical and passionate.
Denomination that derives from Plato’s conception of love
The denomination of the concept has its origin in the philosopher Plato, for instance it is spoken of as Platonic. Plato maintained that love was something unattainable and that it had no relationship with the material but strictly with the spiritual, the beauty of the soul and the feeling of knowledge of the other person. For Plato, neither carnality nor sexual desire had anything to do with this conception of love.
Plato, in his famous dialogues, argued that the love of knowledge, wisdom and beauty is what, according to this philosopher, is at the origin of love, far from any kind of passionate allusion. An individual, Plato thought, will find love when they have a vision close to the one they had as a soul in which beauty was appreciated above all things while ideas were contemplated, meanwhile, that light on beauty will be found in the body of the person you love or begin to love. The vision of the soul of the other is what Plato considered as deep love.
However, we must emphasize that with the passage of time this idea proposed by Plato hundreds of years ago has become obsolete and the concept came to be used massively to refer to that love story that is characterized by its impossibility of materializing in practice, for various factors, and by their lack of correspondence.
We all had a platonic love…
Surely all those who are reading this article will remember with a smile and endearing affection that platonic love they once had, because all of us without exception have had it, especially in childhood and adolescence where imagination, dreams and idealizations abound. . The singer of our favorite band, an actor who moved us, the older brother of a friend, a teacher at school, are some of the many platonic loves that surely someone had.
Normally, that irrepressible feeling is usually accompanied by an ideal story that our mind makes up thinking of us together with that person. Forming a family, getting married and even having children with platonic love, traveling the world, among countless stories that usually come together in our minds.
What brings greater magnetism and attraction to platonic love is the impossibility of concretion that it has, what a paradox… Among some of the most common reasons why this harmony does not occur, we can mention: difference in social classes, important differences in age , such as being a 15-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man, famous personalities, considerable geographical distances, people who are in a relationship, among others.
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