Author: Adam Phillips Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Essays
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ISBNs: 9780674634404 0674634403 |
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People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing?
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