The Enduring Kiss
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The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love. In this short book, Massimo Recalcati – one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors – offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.
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Massimo Recalcati. The Enduring Kiss
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
The Enduring Kiss. Seven Short Lessons on Love
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Promise
To Burn or To Last?
Saying ‘I Love You’
The Miracle of the Encounter
‘Amur’
The Light
Being Expected
Forever
Notes
2 Desire. The Fire of Sexual Desire
Desire and Love
Eroticism and Fetishism
When a Body Becomes a Book
Notes
3 Children
A Child Comes into the World
More than One
Sacrificing Ourselves for Our Children
Libidinal Confiscation
Notes
4 Betrayal and Forgiveness
Jealousy
Every Great Love Can Die
The Atrocity of the Work of Forgiveness
The Wound that Became Poetry
Notes
5 Violence
Hitler’s Bitch
Freedom and Ownership
Violence as a Profanation of Love
The Refusal of Femininity
Notes
6 Separations. Indifference and Deceit
‘Separtition’
Destinies of Separation
Notes
7 Enduring Love
To Burn or To Last?
The Intimacy of Strangers
At First Sight, Once More
Notes
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Massimo Recalcati
Translated by Alice Kilgarriff
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Rather, it is only because the bodies remain Two that the kiss is possible. A rapid descent of the stairs or a mountain valley, of a drop onto the sea. The plunging heart.
I kiss you as if wrapped in a spring breeze, and I pour my whole tongue, my entire world, my very being into you. My whole being is in the tongue that kisses you and talks to you. I am in every point of your mouth, of your voice, of your body, of the unknown words of your tongue.
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