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Something wrong?He gave French literature two of its sharpest psychological novels and coined "crystallization" to explain how desire transforms the ordinary into the irresistible - then watched his theory of love gather dust for decades.
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, Quitte-t-on sa maîtresse, on risque, hélas! d'être trompé deux ou trois fois par jour.
I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Marie-Henri Beyle, writing as Stendhal, published "Le Rouge et le Noir" in 1830 and "La Chartreuse de Parme" in 1839, books now studied for their ruthless dissection of motive and self-deception. Before either, he'd written "De l'amour", a treatise on passionate attachment that introduced "crystallization" - the process by which longing coats its object in imagined perfection. The book sank on arrival. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined "Beylism" for the trait in his characters: the relentless scrutiny of one's own desires. Posthumously, psychologists circled back: a president of the APA later called him "a first-rate psychologist before the official term was coined." Realism in fiction begins, in part, with him.
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