{"product_id":"towards-a-general-theory-of-love-by-clare-shaw-9781780376042","title":"Towards a General Theory of Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare Shaw's fourth collection \u003ci\u003eTowards a General Theory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e shows that poetry can say as much about who we are, and especially how we feel, as psychology. They also feed each other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Harlow's famous experiments on baby monkeys changed the course of psychology. They proved that we need care, contact, and love, and they inflicted profound and lasting suffering on their subjects. Clare Shaw's poems in \u003ci\u003eTowards a General Theory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e are driven by the same furious need to understand the experience of love and its absence. Harlow's findings, attachment theory, mythology, and art are set alongside stories of attraction, grief, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is inhabited by the character of Monkey, who shows by example how early attachments and trauma may shape us, but how ultimately the individual—like the reader—will come to realise her, his, or their own general theory and practice of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600881959148,"sku":"9781780376042","price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c612e89602ede630cfd22367eeeda499.jpg?v=1778019384","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/towards-a-general-theory-of-love-by-clare-shaw-9781780376042","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}