Abstract
Employing the Greek concept of eros, as well as medieval and Renaissance notions of sexual possession by the “phantasm,” I consider the ways in which the erotic is represented in A. S. Byatt's Possession and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. Both novels suggest that erotic love can lead to possessive madness. In addition, Byatt also represents the original idea of Platonic love as a possible antidote to acquisitive, destructive love.
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