Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time
by Stephen A. Mitchell
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Author: Stephen A. MitchellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-02
ISBN: 0393323730
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary of Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time
"A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."?Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe
Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships?it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if only we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect ourselves from its risks. "Those who read this book will love more wisely because of it."?Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon "[A] work on romance that is rich and multi-layered."?Publishers Weekly "Cheerful, open, and humane?you'd definitely have wanted him as your analyst."?Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review "[T]houghtful, compassionate, and profoundly optimistic."?JoAnn Gutin, Salon.comTo delve into the subject of love with relational psychologist Stephen A. Mitchell is to race headfirst into an enormous haystack with a kid who's intent on finding not one, but probably a dozen, needles. In Can Love Last? Mitchell's boyish curiosity and profound intelligence virtually set fire to the subject, both enlightening and challenging his readers. Mitchell's premise is that romance, in its many forms, is key to a life worth living.
Why, then, does the sizzle so often fizzle, especially in committed relationships? More importantly, what forces compel humans to actively douse romantic flames in favor of more "stable" love? Mitchell's probings of these and other questions take him on a fascinating journey through times and topics historical as well as contemporary. From Plato to Freud, Homer to Kris Kristofferson, Mitchell weaves history, philosophy, literature, and (of course) psychology into a surprisingly sensible pattern. Yes, a few loud threads stand out, including his well-supported theory that "stable" love is actually much riskier than romance. But over all, differing theories on love and desire, stability and adventure, or surrender and control find more parallels than crossroads under Mitchell's tender care, making this book an intellectual gift to the masses. --Liane Thomas
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