"We have come a long way from regarding passionate love as...simply
a romantic agony of fatal perversions and deadly sex," writes
psychoanalyst Gediman. Her provocative study examines such famous
lovers as Tristan and Isolde, Siegmund and Sieglinde, even Sleeping
Beauty and her Prince, to consider two common types of love/death
fantasies: Liebestod, in which one longs to unite with the beloved
eternally in death; and Resurrection, the idea of rebirth after
death that often includes a desire for sensual bliss beyond
mortality. These fantasies can encompass a wide variety of
psychological processes, ranging from perfectly normal to decidedly
pathological, argues the author, who buttresses her literary,
artistic, and mythological references with analysis of real-life
cases in the psychological literature. Those expecting a pleasant
stroll through well-trodden lit-crit fields will find the clinical
material rather heavy going, but Gediman's thoughtful appraisal
reminds us that intense passion is in itself neither healthy nor
diseased - it all depends on the uses we put it to. (Kirkus
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Love and death are prevalent motifs in legend, art, literature,
and opera, as well as in the fantasies of most people. In art and
life, the love/death archetype transcends culture, time, and
geography.
This book addresses two kinds of fantasies of love and death,
one the passionate wish to die together with a loved one, the other
the desire to extend one's life--and loves--after death.
Illustrating how these love/death phenomena span a continuum from
the normal to the pathological, Helen Gediman delves into the
psychoanalytic meanings of these fantasies and motifs, as embedded
in the arts, as well as in the human psyche.
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