This article discusses the topic of the pain of love in different fields of knowledge that were part of the medicine of the soul during the first modernity. In particular, the author analyzes the considerations of the French physician Jacques Ferrand's (1575-1623) regarding the unstable, delusional and imperfect nature of love. The conclusion is that the pain of love calls for reflections on the relationship between affects and the body, and challenges traditional categories of diagnosis and treatment.
Pain of love; melancholia; jealousy; medicine of the soul; history of psychopathology