Love Without an Owner: Desire, Jealousy, and Intimacy Between Free People

ABRAFP International Press
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Love does not become secure by becoming ownership. Jealousy, fusion, testing, and surveillance may promise protection while quietly destroying encounter. Diogenes’ fierce independence and psychoanalytic accounts of desire guide an exploration of intimacy between separate people. This field guide helps readers distinguish devotion from possession, boundaries from punishment, and commitment from the demand to complete another person.
Love does not become secure by becoming ownership. Jealousy, fusion, testing, and surveillance may promise protection while quietly destroying encounter. Diogenes’ fierce independence and psychoanalytic accounts of desire guide an exploration of intimacy between separate people. This field guide ...

About the author

Deivede Eder Ferreira is a philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work explores desire, freedom, identity, and the forms of adaptation that organize everyday life. In The Diogenes Sessions, he brings ancient Cynic philosophy into conversation with psychoanalysis.

Deivede Eder Ferreira is a philosopher and psychoanalyst whose work explores desire, freedom, identity, and the forms of adaptation that organize everyday life. In The Diogenes Sessions, he brings ancient Cynic philosophy into conversation with psychoanalysis.

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