Before revision: Stendhal's theory of crystallization implied an imaginative readiness for love, which only needed a single trigger for the object to be imbued with every fantasised perfection.Irving Singer, The Nature of Love (2009) p. 360-1 Proust went further, singling out absence, inaccessibility or jealousy as the necessary precipitants of love.G.
After revision: Stendhal's theory of crystallization implied an imaginative readiness for love, which only needed a single trigger for the object to be imbued with every fantasized perfection.Irving Singer, The Nature of Love (2009) p. 360-1 Proust went further, singling out absence, inaccessibility or jealousy as the necessary precipitants of love.G.