Styles of Love, Lee’s Color Wheel Theory

Everyone knows that love is a complex phenomenon. Indeed, it manifests itself in many different forms and intensities. John Alan Lee, a social psychology researcher, proposed a classification of the different styles of love. He wrote a book called The Colors of Love: An Exploration of the Ways of Loving. In this book, he introduced the idea of amatory archetypes. His goal in defining styles of love or amatory archetypes was to establish some common traits in the different ways of loving. He aimed to classify the different kinds of love into groups. In fact, he wanted to make this…