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 ...