Love Weekend

Why are relationships so complicated? What can we do about the ebbs and flows of attraction? How valuable is time alone?

Everyone knows that love makes us happier but also more miserable than anything else.  And on Valentine’s Day, whether you are single or coupled, it’s a subject that’s impossible for any of us to ignore.  

We’ve created a day course to guide you through love’s joys and pitfalls using insights and wisdom from the greatest thinkers on the topic. We’ll explore some essential questions: How can lovers have better conversations? How important is sex? How can love be made to last? What can science usefully tell us about love?

We’ll draw on ideas from philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature and art. We’ll discover what Plato, Shakespeare, Freud and others had to say about compassion, empathy and self. We’ll ask how institutions of love, such as courtship and marriage, have changed over the centuries and where that legacy leaves us now.