Title: On flirtation
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? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements - about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Interpersonal relations, Pyschoanalysis and literature, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and literature, Psychoanalytic Interpretation, Literature, Psychoanalyse, Hofmakerij, Letterkunde, Flirting, Psychological aspects