1st Edition

Love in a Time of Loneliness

By Paul Verhaeghe Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The 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... Read more
Prologue: Sex, Death and Power -- The Impossible Couple -- Fathers in Flight -- The Drive

Biography

Verhaeghe, Paul