History begins by writing. This article pursues a psychoanalytical perspective of the origins of love. Conceiving love has constituted one of the most important struggles of the human being, probably from pre-historical times. Art has certainly contributed to great progress in this area, just as psychoanalysis has provided a deeper and impressive quality on love's sense. The source of love feelings, the initial objects of love and each love relationship as a repetition, are acquisitions that psychoanalysis distinguishes. In that sense psychoanalysis deals with the prehistory of love.