Love is A Kind of Madness

David Price
4 min readFeb 3, 2022
Jean Deville — Angel of Splendour

‘Love is a kind of madness, Plato said, a divine madness. Today we talk about love as though it were primarily an aspect of relationship and also, to a great degree, as if it were something within our control. We’re concerned about how to do it right, how to make it successful, how to overcome its problems, and how to survive its failures. Many of the problems people bring to therapy involve the high expectations and the rock bottom

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.