Jealousy: Experiences and Solutions

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. First ed., first printing (full number line). ix, 356 pages; 24 cm As new; very fine in very fine jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780226039350, 0226039358

Contents: Introduction: my cases and my own case. Part one: jealousy as it is lived. The jealous individual. The partner. The rival. Normality and justification. Destructive solutions. Between patriarchate and sexual revolution. Difficulties with the concept of possession. Compulsion to freedom: a paradox. Part two: tradition. toward a history of the emotion of jealousy. On the hierarchy of emotions. The jealous god. The power of emotions on olympus. Jesus: love and freedom. The difficulty of expressing jealousy. Bonding, freedom, the sense of honor: traditions of love and jealousy. Part three: psychological theories. Freud's essay of. The triangle: husband, wife, child. From the triangle back to the biangular relationship. Guilty individual or multilateral entanglement. Part four: countermovements. Thirty cases from our counseling practice. Shock, rage, pain. A new reality in the relationship. Seeing oneself anew. The reality of the partner. Withdrawal from symbiosis. Working through the past in marriage counseling. The meaning of the rival: fantasy and reality. Severed constraints. Homosexuality. Letting go and returning. New life, new love. Laughing and crying. Finale: the solution of the gods. Notes: Translation of: Eifersucht. Language Notes: Translation of: Eifersucht.