An exploration of the dilemma of modern man focusing on his failure to appreciate the meanings of love and will.

Originally published as hbk.: c1969.

Introduction: our schizoid world -- Problems as prophetic -- The artist and the neurotic -- The neurotic as predictive -- The emergence of apathy -- pt -- I -- Love -- Paradoxes of sex and love -- Sexual wilderness -- Salvation through technique -- The new Puritanism -- Freud and Puritanism -- Motives of the problem -- Revolt against sex -- Eros in conflict with sex -- The return of repressed Eros -- What is Eros? Eros in Plato -- Freud and Eros -- The union of Eros: a case study -- Eros sickening -- Love and death -- Love as the intimation of mortality -- Death and the obsession with sex -- The tragic sense in love -- The tragic and separation -- Contraceptives and the tragic -- Love and the daimonic -- Defining the daimonic -- Objections to the term -- The daimonic in primitive psychotherapy -- Some historical soundings -- Love and the diamonic -- The daimonic in dialogue -- Dialogue and integration -- Stages of the daimonic -- The daimonic and the anonymous -- The daimonic and knowledge -- Naming the daimonic -- Naming of the daimonic in therapy -- pt -- II -- Will -- The will in crisis -- Undermining of personal responsibility -- Contradiction in will -- The case of John -- Will in psychoanalysis -- Illusion and will -- Wish and will -- The demise of will power -- Freud's anti-will system -- The wish -- Illness as the inability to wish -- Lack of capacity to wish -- William James and will -- Intentionality -- The roots of intentionality -- Example from psychoanalysis -- Perception and intentionality -- The body and intentionality -- Will and intentionality -- Intentionality in therapy -- Cases of Preston -- Stages in therapy -- From wish to will -- Wish and will to decision -- Human freedom -- pt -- III -- Love and will -- The relation of love and will -- Love and will blocking each other -- Impotence as an example -- Imagination and time -- Union of love and will -- The meaning of care -- Care in love and will -- The mythos of care -- Care in our day -- Communion of consciousness -- Love as personal -- Aspects of the love act -- Creating of consciousness -- Love, will and forms of society.