Passionate attraction

Passionate attraction was the source of movement in Fourier's theory. It was 'the drive given by nature, prior to reflection and persistent despite the opposition of reason, duty, prejudice, etc.'. 25 It was thus 'incompressible' and equally capable of producing harmony or chaos. Harmony depended upon the presence of a mechanism in which the passions could be combined. The 'uncertain sciences' of civilisation vainly attempted to repress the passions. But only the ineptitude of 'the sophists' could have led to the supposition 'that God could have created the passions ... without having drawn up any plan for their employment'.2 6 To attempt to repress the passions was to mistake symptom for cause. 'The sole tendency of the passions' was towards 'concord', but only insofar as 'they regularly encounter each other in the progressive Series or series of groups; outside this mechanism, the passions are no more than unleashed tigers, unfathomable enigmas'. It was the theory of progressive series which supplied Fourier's source of order. The progressive series was 'the passional code regulating our domestic, industrial and social relations'.CambridgeThe idea of attracting work is based on the theory of dynamics of passions and passionate attraction, anthropological expression of the general law of attraction.Suzana Guerra Albornoz, June 2007"Passionate attraction, work, and education in Charles Fourier's The new industrial and societary world." June 2007,
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Libidinal economy
Category:Romantic relations