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Esther Perel

High Low with EmRata

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The Death of Desire, Sexuality, Ruptures, and Repair

"I'm interested in the erotic, and that means that I'm interested in what keeps us feeling alive," she says. "Not being dead doesn't mean that we feel alive, just means we are surviving." She comes from a family of Holocaust survivors who came back to life after losing all their loved ones. The theme permeates how she understands desire, sexuality, ruptures, and repair in relationships.

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