The Temptation of the Wall

Five Short Lessons on Civil Life
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4879-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 134 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Recalcati, Massimo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kilgarriff, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Warning

Introduction

1.    The Border

2.    Hate

3.    Ignorance

4.    Fanaticism

5.    Freedom

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Massimo Recalcati is a bestselling author and psychoanalyst who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.