Abstract Within psychology, love is typically understood in fundamentally psychological terms. Even those critical psychologists who have interrogated the sociopolitical dimensions of love seem unable to break from conceptions of love as romantic, familial, and/or private. In this article, I argue that in understanding love as a disposition, rather than a feeling, political psychologists are able to bring nuance to mainstream psychology's engagement with the emancipatory potentialities of love while, simultaneously, instating a critical reorientation of political psychology. To this end, I offer two pathways through which political psychologists can work with love: rooting counter-hegemonies in the love ethic, and enunciating love knowledges across contexts. I conclude by reflecting on future directions for critical political psychologists who are concerned with a multifaceted, materialist, psychopolitical and contextually-bound notion of love.

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考虑爱：对批判政治心理学的影响

摘要 在心理学中，爱通常是从基本的心理学术语来理解的。即使是那些对爱情的社会政治维度进行审问的批判心理学家，似乎也无法摆脱浪漫、家庭和/或私人爱情的概念。在这篇文章中，我认为，在将爱理解为一种性格而不是一种感觉时，政治心理学家能够为主流心理学与爱的解放潜力的参与带来细微差别，同时，对政治心理学进行批判性的重新定位。为此，我提供了两种政治心理学家可以与爱情合作的途径：在爱情伦理中根植反霸权，并在不同背景下阐明爱情知识。