Accordint to Leo Bernasi, "psychoanalytically speaking, monogamy is cognitively inconceivable and morally indefensible." This claim was not so strange for me as I have been able to attend the lecture of Vivian Gornick about Emma Goldman and love. Both claim that love should not be forced to be as society puts pressure over it. Both believe that love is not something that can be limited by number of partners or years together. Maybe the approaches are different but both are against the established idea of marriage or at least they are not completely conformed with it. Also, Leo Bernasi claims that "sexual preference depends on whom we identified with." The relationships and emotional connectedness should not be established by society but by the members of the relationship.
Leo Bernasi ends his essay saying that marriage is the "profoundly inmoral rejection of our promiscuous humanity." He suggests that monogamy is not anything else that the alienation of humans from their instincts in order to feel more civilized. Finally, I believed that any type of emotional connectedness should not be judged in the matter of how they make a commitment or with whom; don't matter time, gender, or type of commitment. We should live for ourselves and not in order to fit and fulfill the expectations of others.
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