The Temptation of the Wall(English, Paperback, Recalcati Massimo)

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The Temptation of the Wall(English, Paperback, Recalcati Massimo) is written by Recalcati Massimo and published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1509548793 (ISBN 10) and 9781509548798 (ISBN 13).

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.