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Index
Cover
Other Books by this Author
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: Love’s Vocabulary
Part 1 - A Long Desire: The History of Love
Chapter 1 - Egypt
Chapter 2 - Greece
Chapter 3 - Rome
Chapter 4 - The Middle Ages
Chapter 5 - Modern Days
Part 2 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Ideas about Love
Chapter 6 - Plato: The Perfect Union
Chapter 7 - Stendhal Meets the Deep South
Chapter 8 - Denis De Rougemont: Love and Magic
Chapter 9 - Marcel Proust and the Erotics of Waiting
Chapter 10 - Freud: The Origins of Desire
Chapter 11 - Attachment Theory
Part 3 - All Fires the Fire: The Nature of Love
Chapter 12 - The Loving Impaired
Chapter 13 - Brain-Stem Sonata: The Neurophysiology of Love
Chapter 14 - The Evolution of Love
Chapter 15 - The Chemistry of Love
Chapter 16 - Aphrodisiacs
Part 4 - A Necessary Passion: The Erotics of Love
Chapter 17 - Fire from the Flesh: Why Sex Evolved
Chapter 18 - The Face
Chapter 19 - The Hair
Chapter 20 - Women and Horses
Chapter 21 - Men and Cars
Chapter 22 - The Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying
Chapter 23 - Wings Over Africa
Chapter 24 - Men and Mermaids
Chapter 25 - Sexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion
Chapter 26 - Kissing
Chapter 27 - On the Sensuality of Looking
Part 5 - Passing Strange and Wonderful: Love’s Customs
Chapter 28 - Patterns in Nature
Chapter 29 - The Courtship
Chapter 30 - Flesh of My Flesh: The Marriage
Chapter 31 - Of Cocks and Cunts
Chapter 32 - Love on the Edge: Adultery, Extravagant Gestures, and Crimes of Passion
Part 6 - Points For a Compass Rose: Varieties of Love
Chapter 33 - Altruism
Chapter 34 - For the Love of Children: Interplast
Chapter 35 - For the Love Of Strangers: Life and Death in the South Seas
Chapter 36 - On Religious Love
Chapter 37 - On Transference Love
Chapter 38 - On the Love of Pets
Chapter 39 - Postscript: The Museum
Selected Bibliography
Copyright
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