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In 1956, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm published a book called The Art of Loving. In it he argued that love is an art, and ought to be approached in the same methodical way as you would music, painting or carpentry. “There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love,” he writes. Only by forsaking distractions such as success or money or power can we ever hope to master it.
Seven decades on…
