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? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements - about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis.
- ISBN10 0674634373
- ISBN13 9780674634374
- Publish Date 2 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English