Dorothy Tennov

(1928–2007) Psychologist

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Dorothy Tennov was a psychologist.

Quick Facts About Dorothy Tennov

Born: August 29, 1928
Died: February 3, 2007
Profession: Psychologist

About Dorothy Tennov

[Wikidata] American psychologist... | [Wikipedia] Dorothy Tennov was an American psychologist who invented the term "limerence". Her 1979 book, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, has been called the seminal work on romantic love and credited as largely marking the start of data collection on the phenomenon.

Quotes by Dorothy Tennov

“Love is a human religion in which another person is believed in. —Robert Seidenberg”

Dorothy Tennov

Love

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“Despite ideals and philosophy, you find yourself a player in a process that bears unquestionable similarity to a game. The prize is…

Dorothy Tennov

Philosophy

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“But I don’t direct this thing, this attraction, to Emily. It directs me. I try desperately to argue with it, to limit…

Dorothy Tennov

Life together

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“the amorous relation is “a system of infinite reflections, a deceiving mirror game which carries within itself its own frustration,”

Dorothy Tennov

Self-Awareness

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“The relationship between limerence and sex remains extremely complicated. Despite virtually unanimous agreement among interviewees that sex with LO under the best…

Dorothy Tennov

Human existence

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“The eyes, as we shall see again and again, are so important in limerence that they, not the genitals or even the…

Dorothy Tennov

Love

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