Enlightenment reason systematically dismantles all forms of love, not just sexual love

Evidence

Romanticism rejected the Enlightenment’s insistence on observable matter and rationalism, instead focusing on the subconscious, dreams, and a wild imagination. As Paul Goetsch explains, “The pre-Romantic and Romantic discourse on imagination and superstition emerged from the Enlightenment’s context of skepticism. Various writers criticized the high evaluation of reason and the predominance of scientific rationalism.” In Gothic horror, dreams often functioned as warnings, as in Zofloya, the Moor, when Victoria has a dream of the Moor shortly before he appears before her. In Dracula, dreams function as a space of the subconscious where the monster and his victims meet. In many examples from the literature, dreams are liminal spaces where the worlds of reality and fantasy collide. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 437 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• The Romantic imagination rejected Enlightenment rationalism and embraced the subconscious #corroborates (0.80) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 437