Lolita: Vladimir Nabokov

Humbert talks about how there are two kinds of visual memory. One when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open, and the other when you instantly evoke, with your closed. Humbert states that he does not have a picture of Annabel that was memorable as he does of Lolita. Humbert also discusses about a nymphet. This a particular type of girl that he is drawn to and she is between the agesvod nine and fourteen. He describes this type of love by making references to historical and cultural events of romance and marriages between adolocent girls and older men. Thus the older guy is under the nymphet's spell. In order for the magic to work there must be a gap of sereval years between the underage girl and the older men, generally ten years apart.

Tennov:Love and Limerence

This passage by Tennov defines limerence as a magical or supernatural force. And it could also be described as "love at first sight." Limerence is mental activity, an interpretation of events. "The moment" you recognize your limerent object, the object of your passionate desire, the experience is utterly unlike anything else you felt before. Limerence is not just sexual attraction because sex is adequate to satisfy the limerent need. It is a desire for more than sex. "Limerence may begin as a barely perceptible feeling of increased interest in a particular person but one which if nurtured by appropriate conditions can grow to enormous intensity." (Pg. 23) The limerent object could have some sort of magic to change your lifestyle. Limerence at 100 percent may be ecstasy or it may change positive to negative at any level of intensity.

Chapter 6: obsessive sex and love.

Does obsession and sex really link to one another? Well in this short reading that throughout history, at points it was consider to have sex everyday "normal" by society while on the other hand scientist define sex as if you had a certain disease. Society noted that sex is not really an obsession but an attraction to a single person. Now a person who was sexually addictive, stalking, or doing acts of sexual homicide was mad passion. Mad passion leads to irresponsibility, addiction, even murders and madness. But furthermore, there is a obsession to frequency that you have sex. Such as the number of partners, number of orgasms within a number of hours or days or frequency of masturbation. If you perform such activites you are obsessed because these activities takes up hours or days of psychic and physical time. In the past from ancients to the mid- eighteenth century sex was known as erotomania, raving love. A somatic disease of inflamed and congested genitals leading to disorder fantasy. Then the identity of sex was known as nymphomaniacs, men's genitals were abnormal.