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Darian Leader

Why do women write more letters than they post?

Darian Leader

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English
Faber & Faber
01 July 2005
Society & Social Sciences; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: family & relationships; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Sexual behaviour
Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not posted, at whom is it really directed? As psychoanalyst Darian Leader shows, such questions go to the heart of sexual desire, which is never addressed to our flesh and blood companion, but always to something beyond him or her. In an engaging, at times startling, enquiry into the fundamental loneliness of each sex, Leader asks why relationships frequently run aground on the trivial question, 'What are you thinking?' If a man chooses as his partner a woman unlike his mother, why does he try to make her behave towards him exactly as his mother did, when he was a boy? And why might a woman decide not to spend the night with a man, after one glimpse of his apartment?
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Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   145g
ISBN:   9780571179312
ISBN 10:   0571179312
Pages:   176
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   http://www.darianleader.com/

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. He is Honorary Visiting Academic at the Centre for Psychoanalysis at Middlesex University.He has been involved in a BBC2 documentary on Francis Bacon, an ICA video on 'Psychoanalysis and the Image', has lectured at Tate Britain on 'Art and Masochism' and has written essays for various artists, including Marc Quinn and Henry Bond.He is the author of Why do women write more letters than they post? (1996), Promises lovers make when it gets late (1997) and Freud's Footnotes (2000). His most recent book, Stealing the Mona Lisa, was published in 2002.

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