1. Introduction: Love and Death 2. Phenomenology of emotion and forgetfulness of death. Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir 3. Religious Philosophy: keeping body and soul together. Gabriel Marcel, Paul Ricoeur, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Emmanuel Levinas 4. Psychoanalytic Thought: Eros and Thanatos, Psyche and Soma. Jacques Lacan, Didier Anzieu, Julia Kristeva 5. The Deconstruction of Dualism: death and the subject. Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy Epilogue Notes Bibliography