Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. I. The Humanist Past the Growth of the Vocabulary of Love
5. 1. Love Poetry in Ancient Egypt 3
6. 2. Sensuous Poetry in Ancient Sumer 11
7. 3. The Birth of Aphrodite and a New Vocabulary of Love 21
8. 4. How Plato Changed the Western Way of Looking at Love 36
9. 5. Love as a Yearning for Reunion: Plato’s Second Theory of Love 43
10. 6. On the Affinity Between Greek Tragedy and Psychoanalysis 50
11. 7. The Roman Contribution: The Discovery of Narcissus 57
12. 8. Narcissism and Ego Ideal in the Hebraic and Greek Cultures 74
13. 9. Love in the Old Testament 84
14. 10. Love in the New Testament 91
15. 11. Romantic and Narcissistic Love from the Middle Ages to Milton and Shakespeare 96
16. 12. Love in a Disenchanted World: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 124
17. II. The Psychoanalytic Contribution
18. Preamble 141
19. 13. Freud’s Indebtedness to Plato: The Problem of Sublimation 144
20. 14. What Freud Discovered About Love 156
21. 15. Biographical Notes to Freud's Discoveries on Love 181
22. 16. Love and Genitality: The History of a Controversy in Psychoanalysis 195
23. 17. Love and Homosexuality 206
24. 18. Transference Love and Love in Real Life 213
25. 19. Psychoanalytic Contributions to Love After Freud 229
26. 20. Varieties of Love and Loving 257
27. Bibliography 279
28. Index 289