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The Myth of Desire
Sexuality, Love, and the Self
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About this book
In The Myth of Desire: Sexuality, Love, and the Self, Carlos Domínguez-Morano draws on psychoanalysis to explore the broad and complex reality of the affective-sexual realm encompassed by the term desire, a concept that propels individual aspirations, pursuits, and life endeavors. Domínguez-Morano takes a global perspective in order to introduce a methodology, examine the present sociocultural determinations affecting desire, review the main stages in the evolution of desire, and reflect on affective maturity. Domínguez-Morano further explores the five basic expressions of desire: falling in love and being a couple, homosexuality, narcissism and self-esteem, friendship, and the derivative of desire by way of sublimation. Scholars of psychology, philosophy, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword to the English Edition
- Part I DESIRE
- Chapter One Understanding Desire through Science and Myth
- Chapter Two That Obscure Object of Desire
- Chapter Three Current Transformations in the World of Desire
- Chapter Four Desire’s Long Journey
- Chapter Five Accepting the Absence
- Part II EXPRESSIONS OF DESIRING
- Chapter Six Love and Couples
- Chapter Seven A Different Type of Love: Homosexuality
- Chapter Eight Life and Death of Narcissus
- Chapter Nine The Bonds of Friendship
- Chapter Ten Sublimation: Transformed Desire
- Index
- About the Author
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