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The Enduring Kiss Massimo Recalcati

The Enduring Kiss By Massimo Recalcati

The Enduring Kiss by Massimo Recalcati


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The Enduring Kiss Summary

The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love by Massimo Recalcati

The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one's beloved announces the demise of love. In this short book, Massimo Recalcati - one of Italy's leading intellectuals and bestselling authors - offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.

The Enduring Kiss Reviews

"Both provocative and persuasive. Massimo Recalcati taps a rich seam of experience and analytic perception in this brief, elegant essay on love. The lessons he offers navigate us through love's many turns and as many of its literary greats. All the while, he holds up a mirror to the predations of desire under capitalism, offering us instead an image of love in which the possibility of a' forever' exists in an intimacy of strangers." Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love

About Massimo Recalcati

Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Promise 2. Desire 3. Children 4. Betrayal and Forgiveness 5. Violence 6. Separations 7. Enduring Love

Additional information

GOR011285910
9781509542499
1509542493
The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love by Massimo Recalcati
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Polity Press
2021-01-22
112
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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