Intimacies

Two gifted & highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani & Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems & possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as its point of departure psychoanalysis & its central importance to the modern imagination--though equally important is their shared sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge & the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realizeits most exciting & innovative relational potential. In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range of concerns across a variety of contexts.