Authors: Lisa A. Phillips
Sternberg, Robert A., and Michael L. Barnes, eds.
The Psychology of Love
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
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Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love
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The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Todd, Janet, ed.
A Wollstonecraft Anthology
. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977.
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries
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Adele (pop singer), 197
Adjani, Isabelle, 98–99
adolescence, extended, 221
adolescent crushes, 166–68
Aeneas, Dido and, 69
The Aeneid
(Virgil), 68
The Age of Innocence
(Wharton), 16
Aiken, Conrad, 215
Alexandra, Nicholas and, 41–42
Alex Forrest, in
Fatal Attraction,
6
Alice’s story, 88–92
Amalia’s story, 213–14
Amanda, in
Some Kind of Wonderful,
42–43
amativeness, 73–74
Amber’s story, 125–26
ambivalent attachment style, 109–10
Amini, Fari, 108–9
amor heroes,
70–71
amour fou,
81
amygdala of brain, 195
Andersen, Hans Christian, 162
Angela’s story, 104–6, 108, 111
anima and animus, 91–92
Animus and Anima
(E. Jung), 91–92
Anne (stalker), 157–59
antidepressants, 85, 86, 87–88
Antiochus’s story, 69–70
anti-stalking laws and initiatives, 7, 9, 146
anxious attachment style, 109–10
Aphrodite, 188, 213
approach behaviors, 100
Ares, 188
Ariel, in
The Little Mermaid,
161–62, 163, 164
Aristophanes, 30
Aron, Arthur, 57, 103–4, 109, 189
Aron, Elaine, 57, 189
arranged marriages, 49–50
Astaire, Fred, 42–43
Athena, 213
attachment, social, and letting go, 222–25
attachment styles, 109–10
attachment theory, 48, 108–10
attention-calibrating drugs, 85, 86
Austen, Jane, 16, 197
The Awl
(Monroe), 179
B. (author’s obsession)
introduction to, 13–15
obsession with, 39–41, 58, 64–67, 118–19, 136
pursuit of, 93–95, 196
stalking of, 1–3, 148
letting go of, 199–200, 208–9, 220–21
Bailey, Beth L., 50
Baldwin, Alec, 11
Bardo, Robert John, 7
Bartolo (object of unrequited love), 226, 227
Baumeister, Roy F., 41–42, 46, 48–49
Beatlemania, 176–77
Bella Swan, in
Twilight
series, 181
Benjamin Braddock, in
The Graduate,
17
Benson, Mary Sidgwick, 74
Bergner, Daniel, 102
Bernstein, Leonard, 215
Beyle, Marie-Henri, 22–25
Beyoncé, 7
Bieber, Justin, 177
Bill (author’s husband), 200, 220, 222
bipolar disorder, 88, 90–91
birth control, 50, 104–5, 107
Blackall, Samuel, 197
Blanche DuBois, in
A Streetcar Named Desire,
93–95
Bloch, Howard, 21
borderline personality disorder, 86
Bowlby, John, 48
brain scans and activity, 82–83, 109, 195, 198, 211
Breaking Hearts
(Baumeister and Wotman), 41–42
The Breakup 2.0
(Gershon), 165–66
Brehm, Sharon, 29–30, 207
Bringing Up Baby
(film), 16
Brizendine, Louann, 124
Broderick, Betty, 6
Brontë, Anne, 193
Brontë, Charlotte, 75, 193
Brontë, Emily, 73, 75, 193
Bundy, Ted, 179
bunny boilers, 6
Buss, David, 107
Calle, Sophie, 193–94
Careena’s story, 200–204
Carolyn’s story, 132–36, 219
Cassidy, Shaun, 163
Catfish
(MTV series), 33–34
Catherine, in
Wuthering Heights,
73
caudate nucleus of brain, 198
CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy), 85, 210–12
celebrity crushes, 176–78
Cervantes, Miguel de, 189–90
Chan, Priscilla, 5–6
Charlie Brown, in
Peanuts,
230
Cheever, Susan, 84
Chemistry.com, 34
Chevalier, in
Slowness,
18
childhood, relationships in, 127
childhood trauma and abuse, 109
chivalry norm, 8
The Cinderella Complex
(Dowling), 222
Clara (author’s daughter), 161–63, 181, 183–84, 228–29, 230–31
Clark, Jon, 122, 123
Clark, Laurel, 122, 123
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), 85, 210–12
Colapinto, John, 156
Columbia
explosion, 122
Columbiners, 179
conductor (object of unrequited love), 186–87, 214–15
Constantine, 70
cortisol, 95–96
cost-benefit analysis, 53–55, 87
Countess Olenska, in
The Age of Innocence,
16
courtly love, 18–22
Craig (Nikki’s crush), 170–72
creativity and unrequited love.
See
transformational power of unrequited love
cross-dressing, by women, 96, 98–99
crushes, 161–84
as adolescent rite of passage, 166–68
advantages of, 171–72, 174–75
on celebrities, 176–78
compared to teen dating relationships, 168–69
empowerment from, 176–77, 181–82, 183–84
in fairly tales, 161–64
in films, 180–82
identity crushes, 175–76
on killers, 179–80
Marissa’s story, 173–75
Nikki’s story, 169–72
origin of “crush,” 164–65
parenting and, 172–73
Sally’s story, 182–84
social media and, 165–66, 177–79, 182
crystallization, 23–24
Cupach, William, 9, 57–58
Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 193
cyberstalking, 155–56
Dahmer, Jeffrey, 179
Danny (author’s first crush), 163
Dante Alighieri, 7, 20–21, 144, 197
Dara (stalker), 150–52, 153, 154
dark-side crushes, 179–80
dating culture, 50–51
Dating Industrial Complex, 4–5, 25, 77, 88, 101
dating rules, 25–26
David (author’s early crush), 175
DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), 217–18
Dear Lemon Lima
(film), 180–82
Delphine
(Staël), 131
Dembowski, Countess Mathilde, 23
depression in rejected lovers, 110–11
desire, as privilege of men, 96
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM),
82
dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), 217–18
Diane, unrequited love of, 26–29, 38
Dick (object of unrequited love), 194, 195
Dickinson, Emily, 197
Dido and Aeneas, 69
Discovery
mission, 122–23
divine madness, 68, 188
The Divine Comedy
(Dante), 21
divorce, 74–75
Don Quixote (novel character), 189–90, 193, 206
Don’t Text That Man
(Findling), 149
“Don’t Text That Man” app, 218
dopamine, 82–83, 195–96
double jeopardy for male victims, 159
doubting madness, 64–65
DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
), 82
Dulcinea, in
Don Quixote,
189, 193
Duncan, Isadora, 198–99
Duntley, J. D., 107
Dutton, Leila B., 109–10, 147
Easter Parade
(film), 42–43
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 176–77
Elaine, in
The Graduate,
17
Elaine of Astolat, in
Le Morte d’Arthur,
22
Eleanor’s story, 204–7
Elle, in
Legally Blonde,
183
Emma’s story, 215–17
Enid Hoopes, in
Legally Blonde,
183
Éponine, in
Les Misérables,
96, 98
Erasistratus, 69–70
Eros, 188, 197
erotic melancholy, 71
erotomania, 74, 86
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne, 73, 74
Ettensohn, Mark, 117, 127–28
evolutionary psychology, 101–3, 106–7
extended adolescence, 221
Facebook
crushes and obsessions and, 133–34, 182
founding of, 177
profiles on, 170, 178
stalking and, 11, 151, 152–53
fangirls, 177–79
Fatal Attraction
(film), 6
the feels, 178–79
Feminist Fiction (Tumblr blog), 178
Ferrand, Jacques, 71–72
Fey, Tina, 44
Fielding, William J., 40–41
fight-or-flight response, 95–96
Findling, Rhonda, 127, 149–50, 218–19
Fisher, Amy, 6
Fisher, Helen, 34, 82–83, 109
fixed delusional state, 124
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), 82–83
Footlight Parade
(film), 16
Frankenstein, Victor, in
Frankenstein,
73
Freeman-Slade, Jessica, 156
Freudian psychology, 127, 194
Friends
(TV series), 16
frozen state, 126–27
frustration attraction, 83
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), 82–83
Galen, 67–68, 69
Garland, Judy, 43
Geher, Glenn, 102–3, 106–7
gender-flipping, 148–49
gender pass for stalking, 141–60
author’s story, 10, 148
defined, 11
female stalking studies, 146, 147
Findling on, 149–50
Jerry’s story, 152–53
Langhinrichsen-Rohling on, 148, 149, 152, 154, 159
Lasdun’s story, 154–56, 159–60
Luke’s story, 150–52, 153, 154
Mitch’s story, 157–59, 160
Patricia’s story, 141–45
Sinclair on, 145–47, 149
sociocultural attitudes and, 147–48, 154–55, 156, 160
A General Theory of Love
(Lewis, Amini, and Lannon), 108–9
Gershon, Ilana, 165–66
Gilbert, Susan, 197
girl crushes, 175
Give Me Everything You Have
(Lasdun), 154–55, 156
goal-linking theory, 57–58, 130, 212
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 131
Gogh, Vincent van, 7
good victim prototype, 153, 154, 155
Gordon (object of unrequited love), 223–24
Gossip Girl
(TV series), 16–17, 33
Gottlieb, Lori, 84
The Graduate
(film), 17
Gray, Macy, 53
“Grenade” (song), 132
Groundhog Day
(film), 126
Guerrilla Girls, 144
Gus (object of unrequited love), 131–35
Harper, Meghan, 177
Harris, Eric, 179
Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy
(Weber), 206–7
Hazm, Ibn, 19
health effects of love loss, 111
Héger, Constantin, 193
Heinrich (object of unrequited love), 104–6, 108
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, 154–55
Heroides
(Ovid), 189
high mate value, 106–7
Highsmith, Patricia, 203
Hill, Lauryn, 18
Hippocrates, 96, 99
Hoffman, Dustin, 17
Holmes, James, 179
Holmies, 179
hormonal changes and love, 83, 95–96
Hostetler, Caroline, 222–23
The House of Mirth
(Wharton), 16
Hughes, John, 42–43
Hugo, Adèle, 96–99
Hugo, Victor, 96–97
Hussey, Matthew, 101
Hypatia, 72
Ibn Hazm, 19
Ibn Sina, 210
Ida, in “The Suicide,” 131–32
identity crushes, 175–76