Claire Conte, a twenty-year-old, unenthusiastic student of psychoanalysis falls hopelessly in love with a fellow student, Gregory, after he lends her a rare copy of Kierkegaard's novel "Diary of a Seducer." The book seems to possess an uncanny aphrodisiac power which creates a bizarre web of obsessi

Claire Conte, a twenty-year-old, unenthusiastic student of psychoanalysis falls hopelessly in love with a fellow student, Gregory, after he lends her a rare copy of Kierkegaard's novel "Diary of a Seducer." The book seems to possess an uncanny aphrodisiac power which creates a bizarre web of obsession as it passes from one reader to another.