Beschreibung:

XII; 302 S. Broschiert.

Bemerkung:

Gebraucht, aber gut erhalten, Seiten gering gebräunt. - Preface ix - I. 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 - II. The Psychoanalytic Contribution Preamble 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 - i - Psychoanalytic Contributions to Love After Freud - Varieties of Love and Loving: Concluding Remarks - Bibliography. // Of all human emotions, love is perhaps the most mysterious, and the most decisive in shaping our destiny. Without it we are unfulfilled. But is it one ernótion, or a compound of many? The Anatomy of Loving captures the color and vitality of human experience and thought on the subject of love, beginning with the seductiori poetry of ancient Sumer, and moving to the findings of twentieth-century psychoanalysis. In this brilliant, humanistic exploration, psychoanalyst and scholar Martin Bergmann examines the thinking of figures throughout history who have influenced our notions of love to the present day: Plato and Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, Chekhov and Stendahl, Madame Bovary and Eliza Doolittle. Medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century romantic love, homosexual and bisexual love-all are examined by Dr. Bergmann as they have been manifested in art and literature. And, though proponents of psychoanalysis have yet to agree on a single definition of love, Bergmann traces the fine differences made in that discipline between sexuality, narcissism, love and infatuation, sublimated love, and religious love. Above all, Bergmann eloquently delineates how the idea of love serves as a unique crystallization of the longings that suffuse the human heart. ISBN 0449905535