Note AO — Chapter XIV · EROS, LIBIDO, JEALOUSY
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Grudge, ill will, fear, hatred, or envy are often miscalled jealousy, but are emotions entirely different from the emotion of sexual jealousy.
Jealousy is especially confused with the emotion of envy. Professional jealousy, artistic jealousy, etc., for instance, are nothing but envy. Jealousy has a real or pretended claim, envy has none. Envy needs only two persons, jealousy three.
When a man, for instance, loves a woman in silence, without her knowledge or encouragement, i. e., without even a pretended claim upon her, and another man enters upon the stage, the emotion of the first man is not that of jealousy but of fear, lest the second man may succeed where he has not yet. When a man has a successful love affair, and another man appears as a disturber, the emotion of the second is that of envy. If the woman transfers her affections on the disturber, the emotion of the lover is that of jealousy, because he had a claim upon her.