Impossible Love: Why the Heart Must Go Wrong

Some love affairs mark our lives forever. Whether we call them la grande passion, tragic romance, or l'amour fou, they remain indelible because they are often impossible. Why do we fall in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place & with the wrong person? Why do we put the anxiety, the pain, the shame & the longing never fulfilled? This brilliant book explores the nature of these "marvelous disasters" & finds a deeper necessity in the betrayals, taboos, & excesses of impossible love. Using perhaps the greatest of all tragic romances - the passion between Heloise & Abelard - as a psychological scaffold, Jan Bauer examines the erotic structures of irresistible attraction with love stories from the lives of men & women today. A truly exceptional study of Love's chaotic mystery.Bauer, Jan is the author of 'Impossible Love: Why the Heart Must Go Wrong' with ISBN 9780882143590 and ISBN 088214359X.