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