The same might be said about elective affinities between people in general.

Note the similarity of this to 'elective affinities' in the religious field.

"This includes nations of race, gender, sexual orientation, elective affinity."

I have, how shall I put it, organised an elective affinity for you already.

The conditions of capitalism and its class system came together due to a variety of "elective affinities".

Only The Fat Controller's talk of 'elective affinity' prevented me.

The term "elective affinities" is based on the older notion of chemical affinities.

He also made her one of the models for "Ottilie" in his "Elective Affinities".

Thus the average woman is under none of the common masculine illusions about elective affinities, soul mates, love at first sight, and such phantasms.

Elective affinity.

Elective Affinities.

'But what about my 'elective affinity'?'

Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture.

Dov had wished to become a writer, but the father, in an outraged protest against literature's elective affinity with suffering, squashed the ambition.

The Office For First Intentions promotes a common space based upon elective affinities and unexpected encounters.

In 1933, René Magritte executed a painting entitled "Elective Affinities".

As a result, close-knit family structures, once a necessity for survival, become increasingly a matter of choice, replacing "communities of necessity" with "elective affinities."

In 1996, a film version was made, entitled The Elective Affinities, by director Paolo Taviani.

"Elective Affinities," which went straight to video, should make the audience at the Modern rise up in revolt against the distributors of foreign films in this country.

"Elective affinities: Georg Simmel and Marianne Weber on gender and modernity."

Elective affinities Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection.

The concept of elective affinity, borrowed from Max Weber, but re-interpreted, became one of the key methodological tools of his research.

The title is taken from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Elective Affinities.

White affirms that elective affinities link the three different aspects of a work and only four combinations (out of 64) are without internal inconsistencies or 'tensions'.

Mark Rudman Paul Auster: Some 'Elective Affinities'.