(4) Further, this hatred towards the
object of love will be greater, in proportion to the pleasure which the
jealous man had been wont to derive from the reciprocated love of the
said object; and also in proportion to the feelings he had previously
entertained towards his rival. (5) If he had hated him, he will forthwith
hate the object of his love, because he conceives it is pleasurably
affected by one whom he himself hates: and also because he is compelled
to associate the image of his loved one with the image of him whom he
hates. (35:6) This condition generally comes into play in the case of love
for a woman: for he who thinks, that a woman whom be loves prostitutes
herself to another, will feel pain, not only because his own desire is
restrained, but also because, being compelled to associate the image of
her he loves with the parts of shame and the excreta of another, he
therefore shrinks from her.
(35:7) We must add, that a jealous man is not greeted by his beloved with
the same joyful countenance as before, and this also gives him pain as
a lover, as I will now show.
Prop. [XXXVI] He who remembers a thing, in which he has once
taken delight, desires to possess it under the
same circumstances as when he first took delight
therein.
Proof.- (36:1) Everything, which a man has seen in conjunction with the
object of his love, will be to him accidentally a cause of pleasure
([xv] ); he will, therefore, desire to possess it, in conjunction
with that wherein he has taken delight; in other words, he will desire
to possess the object of his love under the same circumstances as when
he first took delight therein.
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