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To love, according to Freud, is to ‘over-estimate the erotic object’ . . . Tempted with the oceanic feeling, we dream of perfect immersion, for the easy erotic bliss of the maternal sublime.

First three chapters are impactful, though his method of analysis is often meandering and hard to pin down. I must point out that I'm reading it in Italian, but my point about the meandering thoughts still applies upon rereading the first 3 chapters in English.