all about love - bell hooks
Hey y'all! It's been a minute, but I'm glad to be back! Today I want to offer my very humble opinion on bell hook's all about love. So let me just start by saying that, you know how there are those books that shake you to the core, that finally let you put your finger on something you've been feeling for a long time but haven't quite been able to articulate? There are many chapters in this book that do just that - even if there are many that didn't, at least for me. But those few life shattering chapters? Those make the entire book worth it. Personally, one of the biggest take-aways for me was bell hook's examination of the relationship between parent and child, and her conclusion that what we were taught to think of as love is actually "cathexis," or the process whereby we're invested in a loved one. She rightly points out that the way many of us were raised as children - with parents who used corporal punishment and claimed that "t