Intimacies
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226043452 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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This revolutionary way of relating to the world, they contend, could lead to a new human freedom by mitigating the horrifying violence we blithely accept as part of human nature. In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range of concerns across a variety of contexts. Finally, in a reading of Socrates' theory of love from Plato's "Phaedrus," Bersani and Phillips call for a new form of intimacy which they term "impersonal narcissism" a divestiture of the ego and a recognition of one's non-psychological potential self in others. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination-though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize its most exciting and innovative relational potential. Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. To test the hypothesis that the essence of the analytic exchange is intimate talk without sex, they compare Patrice Leconte's film about an accountant mistaken for a psychoanalyst, "Intimate Strangers," with Henry James's classic novella "The Beast in the Jungle." A discussion of the radical practice of barebacking-unprotected anal sex between gay men-delineates an intimacy that rejects the personal. Even serial killer
Dwelling in the Impersonal K. N. This collaborative effort by Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips extends the theoretical work of the former in important ways. Those familiar with Bersani will know that he is one of the most eloquent voices in queer theory, psychoanalysis, and the history of aesthetics writing today. This. Bersani always interesting. The Windhover Leo Bersani, with some interspersed comment by Adam Phillips, continues his theme of the shattering of the traditional psychoanalytic ego in limit experiences. Bersani has been developing this line of thought for a number of years and presents it with an always interesting combinatio. sr nyc said As promised. A friend asked me to find this book for her - no problem, item exactly as described. Thanks!
“In this fascinating and disturbing book, two writers with prose styles and intellectual styles that are at once famously identifiable and intimately personal celebrate the possibility of relationships that defy identity and undo personality. Braiding together brilliant psychoanalytic reflections on fiction and film, on the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the invasion of Iraq, on suicidally unsafe sex and Socrates’ theory of love, Bersani and Phillips at once dream of shattering the ego and, in