De L’Amour

On Love – Stendhal

Crystallization Main article: Crystallization (love) In Stendhal’s 1822 classic On Love he describes or compares the “birth of love”, in which the love object is ‘crystallized’ in the mind, as being a process similar or analogous to a trip to Rome. In the analogy, the city of Bologna represents indifference andRome represents perfect love: Stendhal’s depiction of “crystallization” in the process of falling in … Continue reading →