{"product_id":"love-in-a-time-of-paul-verhaeghe-9781855756984","title":"Love in a Time of Loneliness: Three Essays on Drive and Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first essay, \"The Impossible Couple\", is both a humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman. In the second essay, \"Fleeing Fathers\", the author demonstrates that today the Freudian Oedipus complex has disappeared, with a resulting shattering of classic gender roles. Post-modern morals are strange compared to previous morality, because they convey an obligation to enjoy. Things become even stranger when one finds that the expected enjoyment fails to come and, instead of that, we are faced with boredom, anxiety, and anger. The author reconsiders the opposition between Eros and Thanatos as an opposition between two forms of sexual pleasure. The fact that this opposition is ever present in heterosexual love demonstrates that gender differentiation goes beyond temporal cultural forms. Accessibly written and provocatively argued, \u003cem\u003eLove in a Time of Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Verhaeghe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1855756986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781855756984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Paul Verhaeghe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721394508031,"sku":"9781855756984","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa8e029d-1f0e-48b2-96b1-c425c034e15d.jpg?v=1742752739","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-in-a-time-of-paul-verhaeghe-9781855756984","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}