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Esther Perel: What Makes Relationships Thrive

A Life of Greatness

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Eroticism Is the Poetry of Sex

Erotic recovery is really core to our ability to sustain ourselves. We are all born sensuous and we become erotic. It's what Freud used to call Eros Antonatos. There was a moment yesterday in the Melbourne talk that was also very powerful where one man talked about his trauma experience with sexual abuse. And too often when we talk about trauma we are dealing with the actual experience of the event itself but we don't talk about the rehabilitation. The body needs to reintegrate the body and then the world. That's eroticism.

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