the latter arises from a tacit comparison of one’s everyday life to the core of one’s general and fuzzy narrative expectations about how one’s life should be.
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became plagued by the problem of navigat-ing between imagined expectations and the limitations of daily life.
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not only disappointment, but the anticipation of disappointment that is a modern feature of love
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Another way to say that modern relationships lack emotional security is to say that they are always on the verge of disappointment.
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membership in a rigidly organized society may deprive the individual of opportunities to exercise his particular gifts, it gives him an emotional security which is almost unknown among ourselves
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Reinhart Koselleck argues, modernity is characterized by the increasing distance between reality and aspiration,32 which in turn generates disappointment and makes it a chronic feature of modern lives
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their capacity to transform reality into a disappointing experience.
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can say that a part of our emotional socialization is fi ctional: we come to develop and anticipate feelings through the repeated cultural scenarios and stories we encounter
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in secular cultures, love defi nes both the meaning and the goal of existence
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Keith Oatley proposes two defi nitions of identifi cation: Meaning 1 is recognition