Biology of passions / Biologie des passions

What is love? Can we explain Romeo's love for Juliet? What is desire, pleasure and pain, the taste for power and domination? In short, how can we explain our passions? Going beyond the traditional divide between the soul and the body, between the brain which would be the organ of reason and the body that of impulses, Jean-Didier Vincent proposes a new ""theory of emotions"", which harmonizes our conception of man. Not, of course, that it is possible to put love into an equation! The author is too aware of the subtlety and complexity of our states of mind to claim to reduce them to chemical combinations. On the contrary, he knows what love and beauty mean with this book where the smile is combined with purely literary talent.