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Tales of love

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
Print Book, English, 1987
Columbia University Press, New York, 1987
ix, 414 pages ; 24 cm
9780231060240, 9780231060257, 0231060246, 0231060254
14588106
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
Translation of: Histoires d'amour
Translation of: Histoires d'amour