Massimo Recalcati
The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life
The Temptation of the Wall: Five Short Lessons on Civil Life
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The temptation of the wall is a psychological inclination to shut down, refuse freedom, and barter it away in return for security. It is rooted in a deep psychological desire to draw borders and reject the risks associated with being open to the outside world, leading to an impoverishment of the value of exchange and the loss of dynamic plurality.
Format: Hardback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2022
Publisher: Polity Press
Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the temptation of the wall, a temptation with which every modern society has to come to terms.
Drawing on his experience as a psychoanalyst, Recalcati shows that the temptation of the wall is rooted in a deep psychological inclination: human beings have always drawn up borders and rejected the risks associated with being open to the outside world. But when these borders are turned into walls, they can only result in an impoverishment of the value of exchange and the loss of the dynamic plurality of a life shared with others.
Weight: 224g
Dimension: 205 x 135 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509548781
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