homo sapiens or homo faber but ens amans—they are also among the most obscure. Love is said to be indescribable, and neither philosophers nor psychologists have heretofore given us much guidance in understanding it, though sociologists are prolific in their documentation of its role in the human economy. All of us experience difficulty when we are called upon to account for our loves and hates, and, when a psychoanalyst attempts to explain to us the pathways of unconscious desire that leads to the "cathexis" of one object over many others as our love-object, we are usually dissatisfied: "No, no," we say, "that's not it at all."" /> The phenomenology of love and hate - Kelly Eugene | sdvig press