Introduction

pp. 1-34

in: Ralph Ellis, Eros in a narcissistic culture, Berlin, Springer, 1996

Abstract

In Atlanta recently, a man broke into the apartment of his former girlfriend and brutally murdered both her and her new lover with an axe. When asked later whether he had considered the consequences of being apprehended and prosecuted, he responded that without his relationship to this particular woman his life had no meaning, and for this reason it made no difference what happened to him.