Abstract

In this article I shall examine two “states of mind”: love and hate. These two states of mind are commonly considered opposites: but it is necessary to understand exactly, from a philosophical point of view, the nature of this connection is. At the end of this philosophical inquiry what emerges is a true paradox in the bond between love and hate. In fact love, by unifying, strengthens the involvement which belongs to the emotion itself. But it is unable to do so utterly, it is unable to do so definitively. Because, without diversity, without the laceration due to the fact that there is another, it is impossible to give feeling. Hate, by contrast, emphasizes this division, it widens it. But, in its search for the annihilation of the other, it is unable to cancel the nature of relationship belonging to the annulment itself. In a nutshell, you can only truly hate someone that you truly love