Puppy love

Puppy love (also known as a crush, calf love or kitten love) is an informal term for feelings of romantic or platonic love, often felt during childhood and adolescence.[1] It is named for its resemblance to the adoring, worshipful affection that may be felt by a puppy. It may also be able to describe short/long-term love interest.

The term can be used in a derogatory fashion, presuming the affair to be shallow and transient in comparison to other forms of love.[2] Sigmund Freud, however, was far from underestimating the power of early love, recognizing the validity of "the proverbial durability of first loves: on reviendra toujours à ses premières amours".[3]

Characteristics

Puppy love is a common experience in the process of maturing.[4] The object of attachment may be a peer, but the term can also be used to describe the fondness of a child for an adult. Most often, the object of the child's infatuation is someone years older than them, like a teacher, a friend of the family, an actor, or musician, which the child will spend their time daydreaming or fantasizing about.[5]

Puppy love is described as a coming of age experience where the child is given a sense of individualism because they feel intimate emotions for a person that is not a part of their family.[6]

Canadian singer Paul Anka wrote and released the single "Puppy Love" in 1960, reaching #2 in the Billboard Hot 100 and #33 in the UK singles charts. The remake by Donny Osmond peaked at US #3 in 1972.[7] Country singer Dolly Parton's first single, released in the 1950s when she was a child, was also called "Puppy Love". American singer Barbara Lewis in January 1964 released her song entitled "Puppy Love". Australian rock band Front End Loader feature the song "Puppy Love" on their 1992 eponymous album. Bow Wow released a song called "Puppy Love" in January 2001. American hip hop artist Brother Ali has also composed a song about puppy love titled "You Say (Puppy Love)".

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories "valuing the intuitiveness of puppy love over mature, reasoned affection...[its] 'unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace'".[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ray E. Short (2004). Sex, Love or Romance. p. 16. Simple infatuation is often called a 'crush' or 'puppy love'. It commonly strikes those in the early teens or younger.
  2. ↑ Georgette Heyer (1974). Bath Tangle. London. pp. 284, 183. calf-love...a sickly, sentimental dream which only a moonstruck fool could have created!
  3. ↑ Sigmund Freud, On Sexuality (PFL 7) p. 67
  4. ↑ Short, p. 13
  5. ↑ Short, p. 16
  6. ↑ M. H. Ford, Personal Power (2004) p. 124
  7. ↑ And They Call It Puppy Love
  8. ↑ Ruth Prigozy, The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge 2002) p. 38
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