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Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death
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Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion. We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner wh... See more
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Jay Matthews and added
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our willingness to engage that mystery keeps desire alive.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.
Esther Perel • Mating in Captivity
Jay Matthews added
I sensed that they had a deep understanding of eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom—not just the narrow definition of sex that modernity has assigned to it.