The genesis of desire / Jean-Michel Oughourlian ; translated by Eugene Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel.

Contributor:

Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series

Standardized Title:

Genèse du désir. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Married people--Psychology.

Married people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We seem to be abandoning the codes that told previous generations who they should love. But now that many of us are free to choose whoever we want, nothing is less certain. The proliferation of divorces and separations reveal a dynamic we would rather not see: others sometimes reject us as passionately as we are attracted to them. Our desire makes us sick. The throes of rivalry are at the heart of our attraction to one another. This is the central thesis of Jean-Michel Oughourlian''s The Genesis of Desire, where the war of the sexes is finally given a scientific explanation. The disco

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch. 1: Psychological Movement; Ch. 2: The Creation and the Fall; Ch. 3: Universal Mimesis; Ch. 4: The Clinical Analysis of Rivalry; Epilogue: Can One Rescue a Relationship?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609171261

1609171268

OCLC:

761139054