All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion (63 page)

Psyche

psychiatry

psychoanalysis

‘as if’ personalities

‘cure through love’

friendship and

homosexuality and

infancy and

see also
Freud, Sigmund

psychology

evolutionary

friendship and

infancy and

literature and

motherhood and

siblings and

psychotherapy

puberty

punishment

biblical

Puritanism

Quebec

Raikes, Harry

the Reformation

rejection

relational therapy

religion

adultery and

fundamentalism

Islam

marriage and

see also
Catholic Church; Christianity

Renaissance

reproduction, assisted

reproductive urge

Restoration comedy

Reynolds, Debbie

Richardson, Samuel

rights, culture of

risk

Robbins, Amy Catherine (‘Jane’ Wells)

Roiphe, Katie,
Uncommon Arrangements

Roman Empire

romantic love

advice industry and

Christian paradigm and

cinema and

coup de foudre

falling in love

feminist critique of

in literature

in literature (contemporary)

in literature (continental)

marriage and

obsessive

playing hard to get

popular romances and

songs and

star-crossed lovers

transformative power of

twin souls concept

Romantic movement

Romieu, Madame

Rouchefoucauld-Liancourt, duc de la

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr Right
(Fein and Schneider)

Ruskin, John

Russell, Rosalind

Ryder, Sir Dudley

‘safe sex’

Sanskrit literature

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Scandinavia

‘science’, popular

Scott, Sir Walter

Second World War

secrecy

secularism

seduction, arts of

self-esteem

‘selfish gene’ metaphor

Seneca

Sex and the City
(TV series)

sexiness and glamour

sexual desire and sexuality

in adolescence

advice industry

arrival of children and

in
belle époque
France

as ‘casual’

celibacy as transgressive

in childhood

contemporary lack of intimacy

in contemporary literature

courtly love and

danger and

disgust with the carnal

in early twentieth-century USA

excess of choice and

Freud on

intensity of

irrationality of

marriage and

media commodification of

mid-twentieth century

orgasm

the physical act

in Plato

post-Great War

prohibitions and rules

repressive mores and

rituals of

‘self-esteem’ and

in Victorian era

women and

women and modernity

words used for the sexual act

see also
passion; the erotic

sexual hypocrisy
see
hypocrisy/double standards, sexual

sexual revolution

backlashes against

empowerment

fidelity and

paradoxes of

sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet

Henry IV
Part 1

King Lear

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Othello

Romeo and Juliet

The Winter’s Tale

As You Like It

Shelly, Percy Bysshe

Shklar, Judith

siblings

displacement of first-born

jealousy and

in myth and literature

ties of love

‘Silver Ring Thing’

Sinatra, Frank

Slumdog Millionaire
(film)

Smith, Adam,
The Wealth of Nations

Smith, Zadie

The Smiths

social class

aristocracy

in France

Great War as agent for change

historical development of

in literature

marriage and

motherhood and

in USA

Victorian era and

social revolution (late 1960s)

socialism

Solon

songs

Spears, Britney

speed-dating

Spencer, Herbert

St Jerome

Stack, Mollie

star-crossed lovers

Stardust
(film)

Stendhal

The Red and the Black

The Stepford Wives
(film)

Sterne, Laurence

Stoller, Robert

Stone, Lawrence

Stopes, Marie,
Married Love

storytelling

Strachey, Lytton

Strindberg, August,
Dance of Death

suburbanization

suicide

in literature

superstition

syphilis

Tanner, Tony

Teddlie, Delilah Mae

teenagers

see also
adolescence

television

templates of love

Temple, Sir William

Terry, John

Thanatos

Thatcher, Margaret

Thorn, Tracey,
Love and Its Opposite

Thurman, Judith

Todd, Janet

Tolstoy, Leo

Anna Karenina

traditional cultures

transgender politics

transgression

celibacy as

first love and

Trobriand Islanders

‘True Love Waits’ movement

Turgenev, Ivan,
First Love

twin souls concept

United States of America (USA)

American gothic literature

cohabitation in

‘common law’ marriages

Declaration of Independence

declining birth rate (1880-1920)

disapproval of infidelity in

divorce in

infidelity in

market turnover culture in

marriage in 1950s

marriage in nineteenth-century

nineteenth-century public morality

popularity of marriage

religious evangelicism

sexual double standards in

sexuality in early twentieth-century

spending on weddings

suburbanization in

Updike, John

Valium

Viagra

Victoria, Queen

Victorian era