Mating in Captivity
how to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships
$24.60
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2007
Summary
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling Desire and Domesticity
When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different?
In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In reality, it’s hard to want what you already have. Our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. And often, the very thi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340943755 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340943750 |
| Author: | Esther Perel |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Yellow Kite |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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‘Reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan andFrench Women Don’t Get Fat’
An elegant sociological study, complete with erudite literary and anthropological references - Daily Telegraph
Reads like a cross between the works of Jacques Lacan and French Women Don’t Get Fat - The New YorkerAt precisely the same moment that you’re being shocked by her, you’re also acknowledging the validity of her ideas. Perel’s ideas are like the chorus of a really good pop song - instantly familiar because they resonate deeply. It’s all rather terrifying in its intuitiveness and its pure rightness - ObserverAbout The Author
Esther Perel
Esther Perel is a Belgian-born psychotherapist, and the leading authority on erotic intelligence. Mating in Captivity is her first book. She lives in New York with her husband of twenty-one years, and their two sons.
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