Love, like falling rain, can revive an arid life. But how can we find
the love that brings true pleasure? How can we avoid the tragic love,
with its lessons of sacrifice and loss, so deeply embedded in our
culture? 'Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is
an experience of delight, of joy'In this inspiring book, Carol Gilligan
sets out to create a radical new map of love.
Although old
patriarchal structures have been challenged the underlying patterns
remain: the channeling of boys into 'masculinity'; the anxiety of girls
in adolescence, the silences between men and women, the split between
our social and our inner voice. In her work with children, adolescents
and couples in crisis, Gilligan came to see how this 'double
consciousness' - already present in the violence and betrayal of ancient
myths, like that of Oedipus - had developed over thousands of years.
Hunting for a counter myth, she discovered the story of Psyche and
Cupid, a haunting tale of love and the searching soul, a model of
resistance which she uses to frame her quest, showing how joy can be
discovered in the heart of pain.
The Birth of Pleasure rings
with the voices of girls and boys, mothers and fathers, lovers and
couples and echoes with telling readings of familiar writers, from Greek
tragedy to Anne Frank, from Shakespeare to Proust, from Freud to Toni
Morrison. All of us will find something that we recognise - and with
luck, this brilliant, compassionate, flame-like book could really change
our lives.
The Birth Of Pleasure : A New Map of Love - Carol Gilligan
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