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Love and will are two of the elemental passions of the soul that overlap and entangle one another. They are also the theme of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and form the title of a book by Rollo May. I will focus on May’s and Chopin’s descriptions of how lack of will results in an inability to love, and I will argue that May’s account of love and will illuminates the actions of Edna, the main character in The Awakening. But I must also confess a digression into Pfander’s account of willing since I believe it is a valuable addition to May.
A version of this article has been published as “The Awakening in a Course on Philosophical Ideas in Literature,” in Approaches to Teaching Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (New York: Modern Language Association, 1988).
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A version of this article has been published as “The Awakening in a Course on Philosophical Ideas in Literature,” in Approaches to Teaching Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (New York: Modern Language Association, 1988).
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Jacobs, J.E. (1990). Love and Will in the Awakening. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3. Analecta Husserliana, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2335-5_14
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