Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek Eros and Latin Caritas

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword (Craig J. N. de Paulo) xi
Introduction (Craig J. N. de Paulo and Leonid Rudnytzky) 1
The Ambiguity of Love in Augustine of Hippo (Roland J. Teske, S.J) 16
Love and Tears: Augustine’s Project of Loving without Losing (Phillip Cary) 39
Love Lost and Found: The Ambiguities of Amor, Caritas and Concupiscentia in St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae (Patrick A. Messina) 55
Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic Ascent of the Soul in Relation to his Augustinian Notion of Friendship (Catherine Conroy de Paulo) 74
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas: How Laughter Replaces Eros in “Apolo siguidendo a Dafne”  (Luis Gomez) 91
The Ambiguity of Eros in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Other Writings (Bernhardt Blumenthal) 106
Eros and Ambiguity in Ukrainian Literature: The Case of Ivan Franko (1856-1916) (Leonid Rudnytzky) 113
Divided Loyalties: Eros and Ambiguity in Freud; Attempts at Resolution and their Discontents (Bruce Lapenson) 140
A Deceptive Ambiguity: Revisiting Scheler’s Philosophy of Love and Religious Activity (Thomas Carroll) 156
A Mystagogical Ascent of Love: A Spiritual Reflection on the Sensuality of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy (Craig J. N. de Paulo) 209
Eros’ Ambiguity: A Philosophical History of Male Love (Pieter Adriaens) 220
Index 241