Examples of Love and Tragedy from Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis
Comparative Literature Studies, 55.1 (2018), 93-114
This article deals with genetic connections between Fyodor Dostoevsky and Catherine Breillat—using psychoanalysis and philosophy that integrates Plato and Aristotle with Kleinian psychoanalysis. The article develops the notion of two kinds of love, good and bad, distinguishing Freud's work on instincts referencing Plato's Symposium, from Klein's interest in the function of instincts in human relations. . .
