Is love possible? Is the idea of love a wonderful reality or a comforting aspiration? The Possibility of Love is a meditation in our unquenchable desire to love and to be love, the obstacles which frustrate this desire and the possibility of overcoming these limitations. By calling on writers as diverse as Nietzsche, Freud, Wordsworth and Eliot, the book provides an analysis of classical and contemporary conversation on this elusive and complex question.