amort n. (Lat. amor, love + Lat. mort, death)
the double instinct of love and death; the
ambivalent combination of Eros and
Thanatos or the transformation of one into another; a cruel and (self)destructive passion that leads to the ruin of the loved or the lover.
Amort is the most common theme of European literature, from Tristan and
Isolde to The Ballad of Reading
Gaol:
And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!