Psychological Love Experience

Course Objective: understanding the experience of love in Rumi’s perspective.

The process of becoming Rumi from a preacher was a Dionysian process. Therefore to understand Rumi and other myth of different characters knowing Dionysian condition and situation becomes of paramount importance.

Experience of love is a debatable topic, to the extent that there is a difference even on the definition of love among different thinkers e.g. romantic thinkers regard love as something very sacred responsible manifesting the originality of the man. On the other hand there are philosophers who think all emotions and feelings including that of love are unnecessary and turbid and are responsible for obscuring the mental state.

Similarly certain psychologists refers love as a sacred and pure emotion while others feel it is not required for a healthy and satisfying relation.

In this course the following topics are discussed :

Mohammad Reza Sargolzaei is a psychiatrist, poet, writer, and researcher with his research mainly focusing on philosophy, psychology and mythology. His writings include, ‘Man, philosophy, mysticism : talking about main spiritual needs’, ‘ Madness for power and illegitimate power according to Fascism’, ‘Totalitarianism and Capitalism’, ‘A cup from sea water’, ‘Words for today’s generation’, ‘letter to the skies’, ‘Island of Majnun’ etc.

Dr. Mohammad Reza Sargolzaei has dealt with the following ideas :