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To discuss distortions of power in love and sex, it is necessary to consider the ubiquity of power issues in our lives. Look at any best-seller list, and you will invariably find several titles pertaining to power, suggesting just how much we are all fascinated with the topic. Many of these books focus on how to achieve worldly power, giving us detailed instructions in the neo-Machiavellian techniques of dreaming and scheming our way up the corporate or entrepreneurial ladder. Some constitute a kind of pornography of power, showing it at its most glamourous and dangerous, luring us in.
1 In this paper I draw on ideas explored in my books [1,2].
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Person, E. (2001). Distortions of Power in Love and in Sexuality 1 . In: Cierpka, M., Buchheim, P. (eds) Psychodynamische Konzepte. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56504-5_26
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