Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the temptation of the wall, a temptation with which every modern society has to come to terms.
Drawing on his experience as a psychoanalyst, Recalcati shows that the temptation of the wall is rooted in a deep psychological inclination: human beings have always drawn up borders and rejected the risks associated with being open to the outside world. But when these borders are turned into walls, they can only result in an impoverishment of the value of exchange and the loss of the dynamic plurality of a life shared with others.
- ISBN10 1509548785
- ISBN13 9781509548781
- Publish Date 28 January 2022 (first published 13 January 2022)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Polity Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English