On flirtation:

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, let...

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1. Verfasser: Phillips, Adam 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. u.a. Harvard Univ. Press 1994
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:XXV, 226 S.
ISBN:0674634373