Love in a Time of Loneliness - Three Essays on Drive and Desire

Accessibly written and provocatively argued, Love in a Time of Loneliness is a polemic whose very informality belies its serious intent. In these three fascinating essays, The author leaves the ordinary paths of thinking and sets out to discover what drives us in sex and love.

List of contents

Prologue: Sex, Death and Power -- The Impossible Couple -- Fathers in Flight -- The Drive

About the author

Paul Verhaeghe is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the University of Ghent in Belgium and is also in private practice. He is the author of 'Love in a Time of Loneliness' (1999) and 'Does the Woman Exist?' (1999).

Summary

Accessibly written and provocatively argued, Love in a Time of Loneliness is a polemic whose very informality belies its serious intent. In these three fascinating essays, The author leaves the ordinary paths of thinking and sets out to discover what drives us in sex and love.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Verhaeghe, Verhaeghe Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325459
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32545-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Popular psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis