Full Description
Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term "love/hate."
Contents
Translator's Note In Praise of LoveI. Freud and Love: Treatment and its Discontents II. Manic Eros, Sublime Eros: On Male Sexuality A Holy Madness: She and He III. Narcissus: The New Insanity Our Faith: The Seeming IV. God is Love Ego Affectus Est. Bernard of Clairvaux: Affetc, Desire, Love Ratio Diligendi, or the Triumph of One's Own. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Love and Love of Self V. Don Juan or Loving to be Able to Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple Stabat Mater VI. Throes of Love: The Field of the Metahpor The Troubadours: From "Great Courtly Romance" to Allegorical Narrative A Pure Silence: The Perfection of Jeanne Guyon Baudelaire, or Infinity, Perfume, and Punk Stendhal and the Politics of the Gaze: An Egotist's Love Bataille and the Sun, or the Guilty Text Extraterrestrials Suffering for Want of LoveNotes
