Love and strogn empathy was... but the idea of falling in love in the "Illness" sense of the word.. of behaving stupid.. doing things more ore less like crazy is indeed disputed.... and very heatedly disputed as far as I know.

The influence of translations to modern languages and all that...you know :)

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude