Summary
James Hollis: Project Eden - In Search of a Magical Other
Translated from English by Karmela Cindrić
It seems that today we expect our intimate partner to heal us, love us unconditionally and deliver us, to return us, in a word, to the Garden of Eden, Eden. "It seems that everything, absolutely everything depends on this thing we call love. [...] we make love, fall in love and fall out of love, follow love and ask it to save us. Romantic love, by which we mean that elan, that intense ardor, that strong longing for the beloved, that collision, that deep sadness when we lose a loved one, that anxious uncertainty about the immutability of the Other, all that and much more is at the same time the greatest source of energy and the main narcotic of our era," writes James Hollis in this compelling study, who convincingly deconstructs this project doomed to failure on the grounds of depth psychology, pointing out the paths we can take in the search for a mature, authentic relationship based not on unattainable fantasies about the ideal Other, but on conscious love that, despite everything, endures.
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