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Romeo and Juliet: Love-Hatred in the Couple [Le couple amour-haine selon Roméo et Juliette]
Transgression love, outlaw love, these are the notions that prevail in ordinary consciousness and literary texts as well; Denis de Rougemont in his Love in the Western World largely contributed toward imposing the concept in its strongest form: love is adulterous (cf. Tristram and Isolde).