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By: Diane Ackerman

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  • CategoryHistory
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages337
  • Published1994
  • File size2.7 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780679761839

Key ideas from the book

  • Love is examined through historical, cultural, religious, and biological perspectives.
  • The book considers how Freud, Stendhal, and Proust interpreted love and desire.
  • It explores the chemistry, biology, and neurophysiology associated with love.
  • Marriage customs, sex, physical affection, and biblical teaching receive attention.
  • Readers gain a broad, interdisciplinary view of love and human relationships.

About A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman examines love through historical, cultural, religious, psychological, and biological perspectives. Drawing on classical sources and personal experience, she considers the many forms and meanings attached to love across time, including ideas associated with Freud, Stendhal, and Proust.

Published by Vintage Books in 1994, this wide-ranging work also explores the chemistry and neurophysiology of love, the evolution of the face, physical affection, marriage customs, sex, and biblical teaching. It suits readers interested in the history and psychology of relationships, as well as the biological dimensions of human attachment.

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