Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion Sissa Giulia Paperback
Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion Sissa Giulia Paperback Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not…
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Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion Sissa Giulia Paperback
Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy nor a cruel and mean passion, nor yet a symptom of feeble self-esteem.
It is allegedly a disease to be treated, a moral vice to be eradicated, an ugly, pre-modern, illiberal, proprietary emotion to be overcome. 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. Above all, no one should ever admit to being jealous.So should we silence this embarrassing sentiment?
Or should we, like the heroines of Greek tragedy, see it as a fundamental human demand for reciprocity in love? By examining its cultural history from the ancient Greeks to La