Tales of Love

Author(s) : Julia Kristeva

Tales of Love

Book Details

  • Publisher : Columbia U.P.
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 414
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 719
  • ISBN 13 : 9780231219006
  • ISBN 10 : 0231219008

Table of Contents


Translator’s Note
In Praise of Love

Part I
Freud and Love: Treatment and Its Discontents

Part II
Manic Eros, Sublime Eros: On Male Sexuality
A Holy Madness: She and He

Part III
Narcissus: The New Insanity
Our Faith: The Seeming

Part IV
God Is Love
Ego Affectus Est. Bernard of Clairvaux: Affect, Desire, Love
Ratio Diligendi, or the Triumph of One’s Own. Thomas Aquinas: Natural Love and Love of Self

Part V
Don Juan, or Loving to Be Able To
Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple
Stabat Mater

Part VI
Throes of Love: The Field of the Metaphor
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 Love

Notes
Index

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