

These ideas represent a feeling towards something rather than a knowing, an expression of a desire for ethical mutuality rather than a grasp of it. By knitting together these themes from a creative arts psychotherapy perspective, this chapter theorises a psychology of consent as an essential component of love studies by considering the components, core conditions, and resources that generate mutuality across difference from a psychological perspective.


This chapter summarises some key ideas in the fields of social psychology, somatic inquiry and psychotherapy, social contract and sexual consent, the role of imagination in inter-personal ethics, and the impacts and potential of aesthetics, imagination, and representation in culture for generating new social paradigms.
