"L'Ennui" is not the first French film to explore the excruciating erotic attachment we call possessiveness.

Neither label does justice to a writer whose talent for charting social and political intricacies is matched by her delicate feel for the nuances of erotic attachment.

Abandoned by an absent father and ne- glected by an indifferent mother, in Laurie's loneliness she had grasped for an erotic attachment to her older brother.

Personal anxieties about infidelity, within marriage or not, are reflected in magic spells intended to "fix" (defixiones) or bind the other person's erotic attachment.

Freud plumbed the psyche of Leonardo da Vinci, tracing the artist's homosexuality to his erotic attachment to his mother and his father's absence.

We accept rage and ruthlessness as a matter of course in erotic attachment, but here we are being made to see that all intimacies are ruthless - and all eroticized.

What did such a view, too good for any life, have to do with his own imperfect, multiple erotic attachments?

Joseph Pequigney said that Shakespeare's sonnets have "erotic attachment and sexual involvement with the fair young man with whom all of sonnets 1-126 are concerned".

Burroughs kept journals documenting an erotic attachment to another boy.