Translator's note -- In praise of love -- 1: Freud And Love: Treatment And Its Discontents -- 2: Manic Eros, Sublime Eros: On Male Sexuality -- Holy madness: she and he -- 3: Narcissus: The New Insanity -- Our faith: the seeming -- 4: 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 -- 5: Don Juan, Or Loving To Be Able To -- Romeo and Juliet: love-hatred in the couple -- Stabat Mater -- 6: Throes Of Love: The Field Of The Metaphor -- Troubadours: from "great courtly romance" to allegorical narrative -- 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.
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From the Publisher: Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self.