CONTENTS
Ellie Schleussner translation
PREFACE
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
FIRST STAGE: THE SEXUAL INSTINCT
THE SECOND STAGE: LOVE
CHAPTER I. The Birth of Europe
CHAPTER II. The Deification of Woman (First Form of Metaphysical Eroticism):—(a) The Love of the Troubadours; (b) The Queen of Heaven; (c) Dante and Goethe; (d) Michel Angelo
CHAPTER III. Perversions of Metaphysical Eroticism:—(a) The Brides of Christ; (b) Sexual Mystics
THE THIRD STAGE: THE BLENDING OF SEXUALITY AND LOVE
CHAPTER I. The Longing for the Synthesis
CHAPTER II. The Love-Death (Second Form of Metaphysical Eroticism)
CHAPTER III. The Conflict between Sexuality and Love.—The Seeker of Love and the Slave of Love
CHAPTER IV. The Revenge of Sexuality.—The Demoniacal and the Obscene
CONCLUSION: The Psychogenetic Law.—The Individual as an Epitome of the Human Race