ABSTRACT
Jealousy erupts violently, often without warning, brutally trampling on feelings of love and trust. Shame and jealousy fuel each other: the perception of a rival contains the idea of one's own inadequacy compared to an other, and hence gives rise to shame and jealousy—which gives rise to further shame and feelings of inadequacy—in turn giving rise to further jealousy. Jealousy, envy and possessiveness reasserted themselves despite the best efforts to keep them down. Men may have evolved much stronger reactions of jealousy to the idea of the woman having sex with another man, as opposed to emotional infidelity, which may be more important to the woman. A. Freud argues that projected jealousy is common, deriving from a person's denial and projection of his or her own impulses to be unfaithful. A more serious kind of delusional jealousy arises from projection not merely of impulses to be unfaithful per se, but also of repressed homosexual impulses.
