LEADER 03878nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910453876403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95910-3 010 $a9786611959104 010 $a0-226-04356-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226043562 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578870 035 $a(EBL)408338 035 $a(OCoLC)437247658 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000182142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000182142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10166669 035 $a(PQKB)10338722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000591245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12231605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10696661 035 $a(PQKB)10715149 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408338 035 $a(DE-B1597)523618 035 $a(OCoLC)1096476539 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226043562 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408338 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265938 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195910 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578870 100 $a20070822d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIntimacies$b[electronic resource] /$fLeo Bersani & Adam Phillips 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (135 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-04345-2 311 $a0-226-04351-7 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tOne. The It in the I -- $tTwo. Shame on You -- $tThree. The Power of Evil and the Power of Love -- $tFour. On a More Impersonal Note -- $tConclusion 330 $aTwo gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to the modern imagination-though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize its most exciting and innovative relational potential. In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range of concerns across a variety of contexts. To test the hypothesis that the essence of the analytic exchange is intimate talk without sex, they compare Patrice Leconte's film about an accountant mistaken for a psychoanalyst, Intimate Strangers, with Henry James's classic novella The Beast in the Jungle. A discussion of the radical practice of barebacking-unprotected anal sex between gay men-delineates an intimacy that rejects the personal. Even serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the Bush administration's war on terror enter the scene as the conversation turns to the way aggression thrills and gratifies the ego. Finally, in a reading of Socrates' theory of love from Plato's Phaedrus, Bersani and Phillips call for a new form of intimacy which they term "impersonal narcissism": a divestiture of the ego and a recognition of one's non-psychological potential self in others. This revolutionary way of relating to the world, they contend, could lead to a new human freedom by mitigating the horrifying violence we blithely accept as part of human nature. Charmingly persuasive and daringly provocative, Intimacies is a rare opportunity to listen in on two brilliant thinkers as they explore new ways of thinking about the human psyche. 606 $aPsychoanalysis 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 676 $a150.19/5 700 $aBersani$b Leo$0457659 701 $aPhillips$b Adam$0155529 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453876403321 996 $aIntimacies$91113865 997 $aUNINA