Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago
claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and
mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who
have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous,
nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Yet for
centuries moralists have poured scorn and contempt on a feeling
that, in their view, we should fight in every possible way. It is
allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated,
an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome.
Above all, no-one should ever admit to being jealous. So should we
silence this embarrassing sentiment? Or should we see it, like the
heroines of Greek tragedy, as a fundamental human demand for
reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the
ancient Greeks to La Rochefoucauld, Hobbes, Kant, Stendhal, Freud,
Beauvoir, Sartre, and Lacan, this book demonstrates how jealousy,
far from being a "green-eyed" fiend, reveals the intense and
apprehensive nature of all erotic love, which is the desire to be
desired. We should never be ashamed to love.
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