Hello and welcome to Overthink.
The podcast where two philosophers explain the theoretical dimensions of your pain and suffering.
I'm David Peña-Gusman.
And I'm Ellie Anderson.
The French author Stendhal wrote a personal collection of essays about the experience of being in love.
It's very creatively titled On Love de l'amour.
And in these writings,
he reflects on the experience of loving somebody while knowing that they may never love you back.
You know, not a great place to be,
but maybe it's a place where a lot of us have found ourselves at some point in our lives.
And it turns out that he was inspired by his own life in thinking about this.
So it turns out that he, in the 1800s,
was obsessed with this Italian woman named Metilde Viscontini Dambowski.
And long story short, she was just not.
into him at all,
which caused him to obsess more and more and more about her so much so that he ended up writing a whole book about the passions of love and obsession and infatuation.
Actually, on that point, so I was really into this book in college.
Oh, really?
Because there's a whole section, Cures for Love.
And I think I actually read an excerpted version of the book that was like a mini book called Cures for Love.