TY - BOOK AU - Bergmann,Martin S. TI - The anatomy of loving: the story of man's quest to know what love is SN - 0231064861 AV - BD436 .B47 1987 U1 - 155.3 19 PY - 1987/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Love N1 - Includes bibliographic references (p. [279]-287) and index; Part 1 - 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 Shakespeare and Milton. -- 12 Love in a disenchanted world: from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. -- Part 2 - The psychoanalytic contribution. -- 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 geniality: 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: concluding remarks ER -