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Tales of love / Julia Kristeva ; translated by Leon S. Roudiez.

By: Publisher: New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press, 1989Description: ix, 414 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231060257
  • 0231060254
  • 9780231060240
  • 0231060246
Uniform titles:
  • Histoires d'amour. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-414) and index.

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.

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.

Translated from the French.