Description

People tend to flirt only with serious things – madness, disaster, other people’s affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements – about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis.

Author: Phillips, Adam

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 674634403
Language: English
Pages: 256