{"product_id":"in-praise-of-forgiveness-hardback-9781509534890","title":"In Praise of Forgiveness (Hardback) 9781509534890","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIn Praise of Forgiveness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMassimo Recalcati (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509534890, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.1 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.295 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e�Fascinating and provocative, this book sizzles with critical passion. It is fed by a deep knowledge of the vagaries of love in our nihilistic, �hyper-hedonist� times and by psychoanalytic insight. The addition of riveting cases makes this a pithy and important work.� \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Appignanesi, author of \u003ci\u003eEveryday Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRelationships fall apart, marriages fail, couples break up – it happens to us all. Time corrodes passion and the routines of daily life kill the excitement that surrounds the emotion of the first encounter. The difficulty of uniting sexual pleasure with love, which Freud considered to be the most common neurosis in any love life, has become emblematic of a truth that seems undeniable: desire is destined to die if its object is not constantly renewed, if we do not change partner, if it is closed for too long in the restrictive chamber of the same bond.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet what happens to these bonds when one of the two partners betrays the other, when the promise fails, when there is another emotional experience cloaked in secrecy and deceit? What happens if the traitor then begs forgiveness? Are they asking to be loved again and, having declared that it is not like it used to be, now want everything to go back to how it was? Should we make fun of lovers in their attempts to make love last? Or should we try to face up to the experience of betrayal, with the offence caused by the person we love most? Should we not perhaps attempt to praise forgiveness in love?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Ideology of the New \u003cbr\u003e The Contemporary Degradation of Love Lives\u003cbr\u003e Resignation or Dopamine?\u003cbr\u003e Narcissistic Love\u003cbr\u003e Two Lies in Our Time\u003cbr\u003e The New Libertine Ideology\u003cbr\u003e Love as Resistance to the Libertine Worship of the New\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Encounter and Destiny\u003cbr\u003e Love as Oedipal Repetition\u003cbr\u003e Falling in Love with Ourselves\u003cbr\u003e The Scream of Life\u003cbr\u003e The Debate over Barolo\u003cbr\u003e The Sexual Relationship Does Not Exist\u003cbr\u003e We Are Loved Not Because of Something, But ‘Because of Everything’\u003cbr\u003e The Loving Encounter is the Birth of a World\u003cbr\u003e Disappointed Love\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Eros of the Encounter\u003cbr\u003e Fidelity\u003cbr\u003e The Face and the Eternal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Trauma and Abandonment\u003cbr\u003e A Captive Freedom?\u003cbr\u003e Albertine\u003cbr\u003e Is the Promise of Love Always False?\u003cbr\u003e Is the Promise of Love Always False?\u003cbr\u003e “It’s Not Like It Used To Be”\u003cbr\u003e What Is A Trauma?\u003cbr\u003e The First Blow\u003cbr\u003e Trauma is the Flipside of Repression\u003cbr\u003e Trauma in Love\u003cbr\u003e Falling into Non-Sense\u003cbr\u003e The Fall This Side of the Mirror\u003cbr\u003e A Wound With No Cure\u003cbr\u003e Abandonment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Work of Forgiveness       \u003cbr\u003e Courageous Love\u003cbr\u003e The Adulterous Woman\u003cbr\u003e To Forgive the Unforgiveable?\u003cbr\u003e Reflection by the Subject\u003cbr\u003e The Impossibility of Forgiving Out Of Love\u003cbr\u003e The Work of Forgiveness and The Work of Mourning\u003cbr\u003e Forgiveness and Gratitude\u003cbr\u003e Why Men Find It More Difficult to Forgive\u003cbr\u003e Violence Without Law\u003cbr\u003e Violence and Love\u003cbr\u003e The Tender Assassin\u003cbr\u003e Absolute Exposure to Love\u003cbr\u003e Virgil’s Gloves\u003cbr\u003e Narcissism and Depression\u003cbr\u003e Woman’s Foreign Language\u003cbr\u003e “They Are All Whores!”\u003cbr\u003e Killing Them In Order To ‘Love’ Them\u003cbr\u003e The Joy of Forgiveness?\u003cbr\u003e Forgiving Oneself\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441795625240,"sku":"9781509534890","price":31.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509534890.jpg?v=1785025849","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/in-praise-of-forgiveness-hardback-9781509534890","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}