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Love is a word used to describe extreme affection for a person, an object, an idea, a country, a friend or a family member. Love is used to describe affection for many different things.

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'''Love''' is a word used to describe extreme affection for a person, an object, an idea, a country, a friend or a family member. Love is used to describe affection for many different things.

The ancient Greeks identified four forms of love:

The ancient Greeks identified four forms of love:

* [[Agape]] - love which seeks the highest good of others, not just friends, family or brothers, but including enemies.<ref> Matthew 5:44</ref> This is considered by all major world religions to be the highest kind of love, although [[Buddhism]] would regard it as [[compassion]].

* [[Agape]] - love which seeks the highest good of others, not just friends, family or brothers, but including enemies.<ref> Matthew 5:44</ref> This is considered by all major world religions to be the highest kind of love, although [[Buddhism]] would regard it as [[compassion]].

There is also a form of love called [[Narcissism]], or self love, from the [[Greek myth]] of [[Narcissus]], who fell in love with his own reflection. Although [[Freud]] considered that everybody has some degree of narcissism, and that this is present in us from birth,<ref>Freud, Sigmund, On Narcissism: An Introduction, 1914</ref> if taken to extremes narcissism can be considered a [[personality disorder]]. <ref>http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html</ref>

There is also a form of love called [[Narcissism]], or self love, from the [[Greek myth]] of [[Narcissus]], who fell in love with his own reflection. Although [[Freud]] considered that everybody has some degree of narcissism, and that this is present in us from birth, <ref>Freud, Sigmund, On Narcissism: An Introduction, 1914</ref> if taken to extremes narcissism can be considered a [[personality disorder]]. <ref>http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/dsm-iv.html</ref>

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