“Love denied, and the somatic experience of that denial, is─as de Rougemont recognized─the hidden, and gnostic/heretical, thread of Western History.” LoveHistoryPlatoHeresyRomanticismSomaGnosticismHidden HistoryObject RelationsCatharism Book:Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West Source: Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West