Birth of Pleasure A New Map of Love

Name: Birth of Pleasure A New Map of Love
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ISBN: 9780679759430

ISBN-10: 0679759433

ISBN-13: 9780679759430

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Carol Gilligan

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Carol Gilligan, whose classic In a Different Voice revolutionized the study of human psychology, now offers a brilliant, provocative book about love. Why is love so often associated with tragedy, she asks. Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare’s plays and Freud’s case histories, to Anne Frank’s diaries and contemporary novels. Groundbreaking and immensely readable,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/12/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.96" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Carol Gilligan is University Professor of Applied Psychology and the Humanities at New York University. She is the author or editor of many books, including In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development and Joining the Resistance.



Introduction



A Radical Geography of Love



Regions of Light



The Birth of Pleasure


Psyche and Cupid: A Summary of the Myth


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Bibliography


Index