BONDING AND CONVERSATION

• Conversation as a mental bonding between ‘‘you’’ and ‘‘I’’
• “To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
• �― Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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Intimate conversations of Winston and Clementine Churchill

«I am convinced that the letters presented here give an accurate image of what my parents were. We follow them in the happy and passionate years of their first years of marriage then we see them maturing in the years of struggle.

Lady Mary Soames, daughter of the Churchills

HOMO DIALOGUS & HOMO RELIGIOSUS

• Martin Buber is the theoretician of ‘‘you’’ and ‘‘I’’= the dialogue between God and me, between me and you.
• The first person singular and the second person singular

Converser

• You and me (speaker /listener)
• Dialogue and exchange
• Person-to-person
• Resonance
• Pathos & Logos
• Homo amans, homo dialogus

Discussion

• That (the thing outside) 
• A monologue of two
• two individuals
• Reasoning
• Logos & Praxis
• Homo Sapiens & homo faber

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they discuss about that

This furniture is called a

Conversation

Raymond Legueult – la conversation, 1943

Henri Matisse - La conversation 1938

HOMO DIALOGUS, HOMO RELIGIOSUS

I am completed in the company of you I become myself by saying you. All real life is an encounter. Martin Buber

THE SECOND PERSON SINGULAR

CONVERSATION CONJUGALE : LE TOI ET MOI

« Marriage is a long conversation. »

Friedrich Nietzsche

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« A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems to be too short

André Maurois

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‘‘In love, an it (das) is not pushed toward a you (du). In love a self commits to another self’’

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Viktor Frankl