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Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland and grew up in France and Canada. She is former Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, was President of English PEN and is Chair of the Freud Museum. She is General Editor of Profile Books’ Big Ideas series. A prize-winning novelist and writer, she co-authored Freud’s Women and has written many bestselling novels. Her family memoir, Losing the Dead received critical acclaim and her book on the history of the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the present day, Mad, Bad and Sad, was shortlisted for four prizes, won the Medical Journalists’ Association Open Medical Book Award and the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science. She has been made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of her contribution to literature. Lisa Appignanesi lives in London. Also by Lisa Appignanesi Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present Free Expression is No Offence (ed) Freud’s Women (with John Forrester) Losing the Dead Simone de Beauvoir The Cabaret Femininity and the Creative Imagination: Proust, James and Musil FICTION The Memory Man Kicking Fifty Unholy Loves Paris Requiem Sanctuary The Dead of Winter The Things We Do for Love A Good Woman Dreams of Innocence Memory and Desire EDITED VOLUMES The Rushdie File (with Sarah Maitland) The Rushdie File (with Sarah Maitland) Dismantling Truth (with Hilary Lawson) Science and Beyond (with Stephen Rose) Ideas from France: The Legacy of French Theory Postmodernism All About Love Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion Lisa Appignanesi W. W. Norton & Company New York • London Copyright © 2011 by Lisa Appignanesi Copyright acknowledgments on page 403 constitute an extension of this copyright page. All rights reserved For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 Production manager: Anna Oler Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Appignanesi, Lisa. All about love: anatomy of an unruly emotion / Lisa Appignanesi. — 1st American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-0-393-06945-7 1. Love. 2. Marriage. I. Title. BF575.L8A67 2011 152.'41—dc22 2011006756 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT To my loved ones and those they love Contents Acknowledgements PART ONE: OVERTURE THE RIDDLE OF LOVE PART TWO: CONFIGURATIONS OF PASSION FIRST LOVE, YOUNG LOVE Falling… Coup de Foudre In Love Again… Twin Souls That Romantic Feeling Crazy about You The Lure of the Forbidden The New Religion The Question of Sex Excess and Its Discontents Finding Mr Right Inventing Love PART THREE: LOVE AND MARRIAGE From Antiquity to the Reformation The Companionate Marriage France: From Old Regimes to New Victorian Marriage Republican Marriage Decline of an Institution Unconventional Arrangements Post-War The Mid-twentieth-century Marriage Unmaking Marriage Today’s Unsettled Unions Happily Ever After Trouble in Paradise

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An intimate and illuminating look at how love shapes our culture and our lives.Unruly, unpredictable—love is a maddening deity. In this insightful and eloquent meditation on that many-splendored thing, Lisa Appignanesi draws together psychology, literature, popular culture, and her own experiences
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