The Anatomy of Loving : : The Story of Man’S Quest to Know What Love is / / Martin S. Bergmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bergmann, Martin S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

A study of the human experience and thought on the subject of love, beginning with the seduction poetry of ancient Sumer, and moving to the findings of 20th century psychoanalysis. Examines the thinking figures throughout history who have influenced our notions of love, including Plato, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Madame Bovary.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. The Humanist Past the Growth of the Vocabulary of Love -- 1. Love Poetry in Ancient Egypt -- 2. Sensuous Poetry in Ancient Sumer -- 3. The Birth of Aphrodite and a New Vocabulary of Love -- 4. How Plato Changed the Western Way of Looking at Love -- 5. Love as a Yearning for Reunion: Plato’s Second Theory of Love -- 6. On the Affinity Between Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis -- 7. The Roman Contribution: The Discovery of Narcissus -- 8. Narcissism and Ego Ideal in the Hebraic and Greek Cultures -- 9. Love in the Old Testament -- 10. Love in the New Testament -- 11. Romantic and Narcissistic Love from the Middle Ages to Milton and Shakespeare -- 12. Love in a Disenchanted World: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- II. The Psychoanalytic Contribution -- Preamble -- 13. Freud’s Indebtedness to Plato: The Problem of Sublimation -- 14. What Freud Discovered About Love -- 15. Biographical Notes to Freud's Discoveries on Love -- 16. Love and Genitality: The History of a Controversy in Psychoanalysis -- 17. Love and Homosexuality -- 18. Transference Love and Love in Real Life -- 19. Psychoanalytic Contributions to Love After Freud -- 20. Varieties of Love and Loving -- Bibliography -- Index