Dialogue requires love, which is impossible under domination

Evidence

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people. The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not infused with love. Love is at the same time the foundation of dialogue and dialogue itself. It is thus necessarily the task of responsible Subjects and cannot exist in a relation of domination. Domination reveals the pathology of love: sadism in the dominator and masochism in the dominated. Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause—the cause of liberation. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 263

Categorization

• QUESTION: Evaluative and hard to operationalize — what concrete behaviors constitute ‘loving dialogue’ in a classroom redesign? Worth pushing on.
• XREF: connects to: The ideal of loving unity with the Other is structurally unrealizable and breeds conflict — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 941; Love is the surface where domination logic punishes the lover who loves too much