Consenting, Desiring, Wanting, through Three Destinies

Vanessa Springora, Emma Bovary, and the Princess of Clèves: each woman, in her own way, exemplifies the consent, desire, and will that, dwelling together within a human being, are sometimes at war. These three forces may strengthen the urge to live or cause death. Freud, Lacan, and Jung all delved into these complex ideas that belong to the realm of love and romance, and may become the agents of human fate.