num_pages: 256
description: People tend to flirt only with serious things - madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing?
language: English
title: On Flirtation
titlecomplete: On Flirtation
genres: Psychoanalysis, Essays, Love, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 180
publisher: Harvard University Press