The Genesis of Desire

We seem to be abandoning the codes that told previous generations who they should love. But now that many of us are free to choose whomever we want, nothing is less certain. The proliferation of divorces and separations reveal a dynamic wewould rather not see: others sometimes reject us as passionately as we are attracted to them. Our desire makes us sick. The throes of rivalry are at the heart of our attraction to one another. This is the central thesis of Jean- Michel Oughourlians The Genesis of Desire, where the war of the sexes is finally given a scientific explanation. The discovery of mirror neurons corroborates his ideas, clarifying the phenomena of empathy and the mechanisms of violent reciprocity.