Description
And yet what happens to these bonds when one of the two partners betrays the other, when the promise fails, when there is another emotional experience cloaked in secrecy and deceit? What happens if the traitor then begs forgiveness? Are they asking to be loved again and, having declared that it is not like it used to be, now want everything to go back to how it was? Should we make fun of lovers in their attempts to make love last? Or should we try to face up to the experience of betrayal, with the offence caused by the person we love most? Should we not perhaps attempt to praise forgiveness in love?
About the Author
Massimo Recalcati is a bestselling author and psychoanalyst who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.
Reviews
Fascinating and provocative, this book sizzles with critical passion. It is fed by a deep knowledge of the vagaries of love in our nihilistic, hyper-hedonist times and by psychoanalytic insight. The addition of riveting cases makes this a pithy and important work.
Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness
Book Information
ISBN 9781509534906
Author Massimo Recalcati
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 181g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm * 13mm