SECOND STAGE: LOVE

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I. THE BIRTH OF EUROPE 39

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 115

III. PERVERSIONS OF METAPHYSICAL EROTICISM:--
(_a_) The Brides of Christ; (_b_) Sexual Mystics 217

THIRD STAGE: THE BLENDING OF SEXUALITY AND LOVE

I. THE LONGING FOR THE SYNTHESIS 231

II. THE LOVE-DEATH (SECOND FORM OF METAPHYSICAL EROTICISM) 251

III. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SEXUALITY AND LOVE.--THE SEEKER
OF LOVE AND THE SLAVE OF LOVE 266

IV. THE REVENGE OF SEXUALITY.--THE DEMONIACAL AND THE OBSCENE 275

CONCLUSION: THE PSYCHOGENETIC LAW.--THE INDIVIDUAL AS AN
EPITOME OF THE HUMAN RACE 284