"The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites."—Eli Siegel

Marriage Classes at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
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AESTHETIC REALISM AND MARRIAGE
There Are Wives: Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, Pauline Meglino 

Through studying the opposites of contempt and respect in the history of marriage and in their own lives including yesterday's incident at the breakfast table — wives learn how to use marriage and a husband to like the world.  We are grateful to present what we learned in Aesthetic Realism lessons with Eli Siegel.  Some subjects: In Marriage — How Does Adoration Change to Contempt?; Can Sex Be a Source of Pride in Marriage?; Disagreement in Marriage — When Is It Good? 
 
 

First Saturday each month, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (continuous)

Articles in the Press by the Teachers in There Are Wives

"Learn How Marriage Can Succeed in a Failed Economy" / Caribbean Life Journal 11/10/98

    "From coast to coast, marriages are suffering because of the failed economy. Women are speaking like this wife of twenty-five years, whose husband lost his job; she is quoted in an article in New York Newsday: "We fight all the time now....."

"How Should a Widow Cope with the Loss of Her Spouse?" Caribbean Life

How Does a Wife Interfere with Her Own Happiness? From There Are Wives public seminar, May 4, 2006, with a consideration of Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, about the loss of her husband, John Gregory Dunn.

"Criticism Is Love" Aesthetic Realism Seminar paper by Barbara Allen, of There Are Wives. Includes Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson--Fanny Van de Grift Osborne--and women today

"Resentment in Marriage" / San Antonio Register    Part 1  /  Part 2  

"The Mix-up in Marriage about Coldness and Warmth"  Paper presented in an Aesthetic Realism Seminar which includes a study of Cosima Wagner, the wife of the great German composer, Richard Wagner, excerpts from Aesthetic Realism classes taught by Eli Siegel, and an Aesthetic Realism consultation with a contemporary woman.

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