Love and lies
Subtitle: an essay on truthfulness, deceit, and the growth and care of erotic love
By: Clancy Martin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780374281069
Subjects: Deception; Love; Self-deception; Truthfulness and falsehood
Description: "Drawing on contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience, his own personal experience, and such famed and diverse writers on love as Shakespeare, Stendhal, Proust, Adrienne Rich, and Raymond Carver, Clancy Martin--himself divorced twice and married three times--explores how love, truthfulness, and deception work together in contemporary life and society. He concludes that learning how to love and loving well inevitably requires lying, but also argues that the best love relationships draw us slowly and with difficulty toward honesty and trust"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.