CAPTURE - The Four Types of Love – Greek Style

The Four Types of Love – Greek Style

AGAPE

This is an unconditional love that sees beyond the outer surface and accepts the recipient for whom he/she is, regardless of their flaws, shortcomings or faults. It’s the type of love that everyone strives to have for their fellow human beings. Although you may not like someone, you decide to love them just as a human being. This kind of love is all about sacrifice as well as giving and expecting nothing in return. The translation of the word agape is love in the verb – form: it is the love demonstrated by your behavior towards another person. It is a committed and chosen love.

PHILEO

The phileo love refers to an affectionate, warm and tender platonic love. It makes you desire friendship with someone. It’s the kind of love which livens up the Agape love. Although you may have an agape love for your enemies, you may not have a phileo love for the same people. The translation of the word phileo is love in the noun – form: it is how you feel about someone. It is a committed and chosen love.

STORGE

It is a kind of family and friendship love. This is the love that parents naturally feel for their children; the love that member of the family have for each other; or the love that friends feel for each other. In some cases, this friendship love may turn into a romantic relationship, and the couple in such a relationship becomes best friends. Storge love is unconditional, accepts flaws or faults and ultimately drives you to forgive. It’s committed, sacrificial and makes you feel secure, comfortable and safe.

EROS

Eros is a passionate and intense love that arouses romantic feelings; it is the kind that often triggers “high” feelings in a new relationship and makes you say, “I love him/her”. It is simply an emotional and sexual love. Although this romantic love is important in the beginning of a new relationship, it may not last unless it moves a notch higher because it focuses more on self instead of the other person. If the person “in love” does not feel good about their relationship anymore, they will stop loving their partner.

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I had intent of studying the way love in my family was portrayed and how family member felt about it, before doing this I decided to look into the greeks different ways of seeing love after thinking about how love can develop over the years, in terms of long term relationships and family. From this i have decided to adapt my original idea and instead look further into ‘storge’ love in attempt to make my work more of a serious or ‘grown-up’ project as opposed to giving the sense of naivety or amiture, which i feel it was giving up to this point. This will also allow me to access a wider range of images and collections due to my large family, thus potentially allowing me to progress my project with larger effect. I now intend to look into old family photos that i can find and work form these in a more analogue way as this is where i feel the strengths of my project have been as of yet.