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To: Self-Retired who wrote (2998)	6/5/2000 11:03:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Irina, I think you may be right about finding a place for Freud, but you are mistaken about romantic love. Read, for example, Catullus. It is true that it was obsessive, but it was an obsession that many could relate to, hence the popularity of his poetry. More than that, the cult of romantic love began among the troubadors, in the Middle Ages. And even that derived in part from courtly poetry among the Muslim principalities of Iberia. Anyway, there was a chaste and an sexually daring version of "chivalric love", and there were even manuals detailing the "rituals" and customs of it. Romantic love long pre- dated the Sonnets..........