The anatomy of loving. The story of man's quest to know what love is.

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - THE HUMANIST PAST: The Growth of the Vocabulary of Love: Love Poetry in Ancient Egypt -- Sensuous Poetry in Ancient Sumer -- The Birth of Aphrodite and a New Vocabulary of Love -- How Plato Changed the Western Way of Looking at Love -- Love as a Yearning for Reunion: Plato's Second Theory of Love -- On the Affinity Between Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis -- The Roman Contribution: The Discovery of Narcissus -- Narcissism and Ego Ideal in the Hebraic and Greek Cultures -- Love in the Old Testament -- Love in the New Testament -- Romantic and Narcissistic Love from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton -- Love in a Disenchanted World: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CONTRIBUTION Freud's Indebtedness to Plato: The Problem of Sublimation -- What Freud Discovered About Love -- Biographical Notes to Freud's Discoveries on Love -- Love and Genitality: The History of a Controversy in Psychoanalysis -- Love and Homosexuality -- Transference Love and Love in Real Life -- Psychoanalytic Contributions to Love After Freud -- Varieties of Love and Loving: Concluding Remarks. ISBN 0231064861