absence and presence, 11, 16, 18, 52, 62, 72, 86, 91-92, 96, 99, 104, 111, 117, 169, 171
alphabet, 41-44, 46, 51, 53-55, 57-59, 94, 98, 105, 108. See also reading and writing
Aphrodite, 4-6, 32, 77, 80-81, 148
apples, 20, 26-29, 69, 87-90, 109, 111, 166
Atalanta, 19
Beauvoir, Simone de, 11
blind point, 71-72, 75, 82, 90-91, 95, 104-105, 110-11, 116, 122, 145, 158, 166
boundaries, 30, 40-41, 50-51, 71
Bovary, Emma, 65
Calvino, Italo, 65
collection and division, 171-72
consonants, 47, 53-55, 57, 61, 162. See also vowels
contradiction, 3, 9, 10-11, 23-24, 84, 89, 92
coup de foudre, 19
décolletage, 28
deltos, 100
Dickinson, Emily, 10
Dido, 18
edge, the, 30-31, 35-37, 39, 46, 50-51, 55, 59-61, 69, 78, 81, 108-109, 121
eros run backwards, 126, 137, 147, 165
Escher, Maurits Corneille, 113
Flaubert, Gustave, 65
flight, see pursuit and flight
gardens of Adonis, 141-43, 145-46, 159
hate, 4-6, 8-9, 11, 26, 37, 75-76, 81
Heisenberg, Werner, 116
Homer, 4-5, 47-48, 50-51, 63, 71, 77, 101-106, 108-109, 120, 148, 160-61, 169
hot and cold, 7, 11, 15, 23, 111-16, 126. See also melting
hunger, 10, 18, 29, 75, 137-38
imagination, 4, 52, 55, 61, 63-66, 69, 73, 77, 86, 94, 97, 105-106, 109, 168-69
intentionality, 16
Jealousy (dance), 14
Kafka, Franz, xi
Kawabata, Yasunari, 65
Kierkegaard, Søren, 64
knowledge, 66, 70, 85, 87, 90, 109, 116, 143, 145, 153, 162, 164-66, 169-72
Lacan, Jacques, 11
lack, 10-11, 16, 18, 23, 30-31, 33, 35-36, 44, 63, 66, 76, 137, 169
language and love, analogy between, 49, 52, 54-55, 61, 108, 130, 134, 141-43, 145, 170
linear B, 53
literacy, 41-46, 50, 53-55, 57-59, 78, 90, 105-106, 120. See also reading and writing
logos, 123, 126-27, 131-32, 142-43, 145-47, 149, 152, 155, 165-66, 171
love, see hate; language and love
madness, 7, 8, 83, 148-49, 153-55
melting, 3, 7, 15, 20, 39, 40, 113-17, 121, 126, 128, 145, 155, 168. See also hot and cold
metaphor, xi, 73-75, 77, 82, 86-87, 90, 94, 99, 101, 103-105, 108-109, 114, 120, 172
metrics, 28, 47-48, 51, 161-63
mind, 3, 5, 9, 16, 54, 63, 66, 71, 114, 149, 171
Montaigne, Michel de, 87, 96, 107
nonlover, 123-25, 135, 137, 139, 146-47, 149-50, 152
novel, 78-85, 91-97, 103, 105-106, 109, 153-54, 163, 166, 169
oracle of Zeus at Dodona, 100
oral society, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 78, 105
paradox, 3-5, 7-9, 11, 16, 74-76, 80-84, 86, 89-95, 105, 109, 110, 114, 116, 118, 126, 136-37, 139, 145, 157, 166
Petrarch, 10
phantasia, 169
phrenes, 48
physiology of eros, 6-7, 11-13, 15, 32, 39, 40-41, 45, 47, 115, 148
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 113
pursuit and flight, 19, 20, 24-25, 79, 95, 157
Pythagoras, 56
reach, 25-29, 32, 52, 63, 68, 69, 71, 85-86, 88, 94, 95, 109, 166, 168-69, 171, 173. See also pursuit and flight
reading and writing, 4, 42-44, 46, 50-51, 53, 55-61, 77-78, 81, 85-87, 89, 91, 93-109, 120-21, 130-35, 141-43, 145-47, 151-54, 164-66, 168. See also literacy
ruse, 16-18, 33, 63, 82, 84, 91, 95, 171
Sappho, 3-5, 8-9, 11-12, 14-16, 18, 21, 26-27, 32, 38-39, 62, 66, 69, 83, 98, 107, 119-20, 127, 156, 166, 169-72
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 51
self, 30-33, 35-41, 43-45, 50-51, 62, 66-67, 69, 71, 74, 109, 135-36, 147-49, 154-56, 165
shift of distance, 17, 23, 73, 75, 81, 85, 86, 90, 94-95, 97
skutalē, 99
Sokrates, 22, 23, 33, 34, 35, 37, 65, 70, 122, 126, 127, 128, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 144, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 170, 171, 172, 173
stereoscopy, 17, 73, 85, 90, 118, 126, 166, 171
symbolization, 52-54, 61, 75, 87-88, 94, 108, 146
symbolon, 75
time, 4, 29, 88, 111, 113-22, 124-28, 130, 133-37, 139-46, 149-53, 157, 159, 162, 165
triangle, 13, 16-18, 23, 33, 37, 62, 69, 72, 77, 79-80, 85-87, 91-97, 102-103, 105, 109, 143, 169
Tristan and Iseult, 23
vowels, 47, 53-54, 56, 58, 162. See also consonants
Weil, Simone, 10
wholeness, 31-33, 36, 38, 41, 68
wings, 13, 49, 89, 108, 120, 148, 152, 155-57, 159, 161, 163, 172