Literary notes about relationships (AI summary)
The term “relationships” in literature is remarkably versatile, acting as a bridge between the personal and the societal. In some texts, such as Freud’s works ([1], [2], [3], [4]), the word is imbued with psychological nuance, exploring how forbidden or repressed bonds influence behavior and culture. Meanwhile, sociological analyses ([5], [6], [7]) consider relationships as the fundamental networks that organize and control human society, highlighting their role in everything from social order to international affairs. In literary narratives like Tolstoy’s (as seen in [8]) and Joyce’s ([9]), relationships become a canvas upon which the complexities of human identity, conflict, and intimacy are painted. Even in art criticism ([10], [11]), the term is employed to describe the interconnections between elements that create harmony or tension. This diversity in usage reveals how the concept of “relationships” reaches into multiple layers of meaning, reflecting both the intimate and the expansive dimensions of human experience.
- At the same time it was feared that proscribed incestuous relationships would stimulate the soil to grow weeds and render it unfruitful
— from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud - Instead of further explanations I shall give you a well-known fairy tale, in which you will again find the relationships I have mentioned.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - But whence comes the knowledge of these symbol-relationships?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - Among the Battas of Sumatra these laws of avoidance affect all near relationships.
— from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud - As a source of social control public opinion becomes important in societies founded on secondary relationships of which great cities are a type.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Thus in [Pg 606] international relationships and in the life-process of each nation countless groups are in conflict, competition, or rivalry.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - We see that all around the ring of Kula there is a network of relationships, and that naturally the whole forms one interwoven fabric.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - The porter did not only know Levin, but also all his ties and relationships, and so immediately mentioned his intimate friends.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - In hell all laws are overturned—there is no thought of family or country, of ties, of relationships.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - This rather increases than diminishes the colour, but is not so safe a method of judging subtle tone relationships.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed - Then there is a harmonic sense in lines and their relationships, a music of line that is found at the basis of all good art.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
