Name: The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love
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Author: Massimo Recalcati
ISBN: 9781509542499

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The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love

Type

Physical Book

Author

Massimo Recalcati

Publisher

Polity

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781509542499

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Enduring Kiss: Seven Short Lessons on Love "

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.

Massimo Recalcati

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Massimo Recalcati (1959) is a prominent psychoanalyst, director of the Institute for Research in Applied Psychoanalysis and regular contributor to La Repubblica; he is also one of the most prestigious and widely read essayists in his country. He teaches, at the University of Pavia, psychopathology of eating behavior, a topic on which he has written several reference books. At Anagrama, he has published The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Progenitor, It's Not Like Before: Praise of Forgiveness in Love Life, The Hour of the Class: For an Erotics of Teaching, The Hands of the Mother: Desire, Phantoms and Legacy of the Maternal, The Secret of the Son: From Oedipus to the Recovered Son, The Taboos of the World: Figures and Myths of the Sense of Limit and its Violation, Hold the Kiss: Brief Lessons on Love, The Night of Gethsemane, and The Light of Dead Stars: Essay on Mourning and Nostalgia.

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