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Abstract: This essay is a critique of the two chapters on jealousy in Jerome Neu’s book A Tear is an Intellectual Thing. The rival – as an object of both fear and hatred – is of central importance in romantic jealousy, but it is here argued that the role of the rival cannot be fully understood in Neu’s account of jealousy and that shame (not noted by Neu) must be seen as central to the concept of jealousy if the role of the rival is to be fully understood. Neu’s account of jealousy needs to be supplemented in certain ways. In particular, I suggest that shame needs to be stressed in order fully to account for the role of the rival in jealousy.
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