Möten utan förening - mot en omformulering av den romantiska berättelsen
The aim of this thesis is firstly to demonstrate how an ideal of symbiosis permeates our cultures writing of love stories, and to demonstrate the oppressive mechanisms within this ideal. I suggest an ideal of symbiosis as being oppressive in itself, by placing it under the psychoanalytical subject-object paradigm, where the subject can never perceive of the other as anything but a rejected or inco