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.
Tales of Love