Emotional and sensual content of friendly relationships

Abstract

The aim of the study is the sphere of emotional and sensuality of friendly relations. This article will reveal the emotional and sensual content of friendly relationships based on the philosophical novella «The Little Prince» by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Philosophers and scholars of different centuries have been describing the development and cultivation of friendly relations. All of them had different, sometimes opposite interpretations of friendship concept. Perceiving the world through communication, the person goes to a higher stage of development, more openly shows the personality and the desire to be a person, a citizen, a professional, and has a wider circle of friends. Friendship stands in the foundation of harmonious interpersonal relationships and is a great value in life. A. de Saint-Exupery devoted his philosophic novella «The Little Prince» to friendship. The topicality of the study is that a wide layer of emotionality and sensuality of friendly relations has not been revealed. The novelty of scientific research focuses on the disclosure of the emotional and sensual content of friendly relations. Modern researches require the disclosure of the sphere of friendly relations, the manifestation of emotionality and sensuality of the individual. Research methods. The aim and tasks identified the following research methods: 1) historical – to analyze the concept of friendship in historical retrospect; 2) differentiation – to determine the features of the concept of friendship in a work of art; 3) descriptive – for describing the events of an artistic work; 4) induction – to generalize the notion of friendship based on the study of its emotional and sensuality. Research results. The research will allow to study the values of friendly relations of the individual, the influence of friendship on the development of social contacts, its multi-vector. The novella is a guide for every thinking person in the labyrinths of friendly relationships.