Eros Unredeemed

About the book: Eros Unredeemed: There cannot be peace on earth as long as there is war in love "I have written this book because it was inevitable. The theme of sexual love had to be viewed and approached from another angle. It is the subject of our time, even if the slogans proclaimed about it sometimes sound different. The theme of sexual longing is the focal point of our inner thoughts and feel- ings. In whatever area I have been involved in life, whether in revolutionary groups of the student movement, in the emerging alternative movement of the seventies, or in my work as professor and therapist, in the end I always encountered this subject. Up to now, the attempts to solve it in communes or through experiments of free love have failed. The various therapeutic or spiritual approaches have not helped much either. The core of the problem is intrinsically linked to our day-to-day thought and behavioral patterns. It therefore can not be viewed or solved while at the same time maintaining these habits. People say that the sexual revolution is over. Inside of us, however, it has really not yet even begun. The previous attempts were too disoriented and too emotional to lead to the center of the problem. At the beginning it does not have to do with revolution, but rather recognition. I have written this book for love, even where I have had to show its dark spots. So that such passages do not get too heavy, I have at times chosen a lighter tone. I hope that the book can be read and understood by all age-groups. I would like to demonstrate that there exists a realistic possibility for love between the sexes which is free of disguise, fear and jealousy. I would like to encourage all of those readers and lovers who can follow this train of thought to find this possibility with- in themselves and to act upon it. If there is a future for us and our children which is worth living, then it is to be found in a new form of sensual love.Despite the gravity of the subject, I wish the readers of this book genuine hope and an- ticipation. Love is no longer a fairy tale, if we understand it, we can make it come true.

Autorentext

Historian, Author and Psychoanalyst, Dieter Duhm (PhD Sociology) was born in 1942 in Berlin, Germany and is the initiator of the Plan of the Healing Biotypes , a glo- bal peace plan. From 1967 he engaged in the Marxist left, including being one of the leading characters in the stu- dents movement. In 1972 his well-known book Angst im Kapitalismus (Fear in Capitalism) was published, which made the link between the thoughts behind politi- cal revolution and thoughts behind the liberation of the individual.1975 saw a distancing from leftist dogmatism and a shift towards a more thorough human alternative, leading to the establishment of the Bauhutte project: a three year social experiment with 40 participants in the Black-Forest in Germany. With the theme offounding a community in our times the experiment embraced the questions of the origin, meaning and aim of human existence on planet Earth. Arising from the experiment come outlines of a new possibility of existence with the concepts of free love ,spiritual ecology and `resonance technology .In 1995, together with Theologian Sabine Lichtenfels and others, he founded Tamera Peace Research Centre in Portugal, which today has more than 160 co- workers.Dieter Duhm has dedicated his life to creating an effective forum for a global peace-initiative which is a match for the destructive forces of capitalistic globali- sation.

Klappentext

In a direct and committed language Dieter Duhm describes the state of love in our culture today. He places the unsolved issues of jealousy, free love, faithfulness, longing, impotence, morals etc. at the center of the question of true non-violence and peace. From the experience of free love he develops new perspectives for a new way of living, where love between two people no longer excludes free love. He describes the philosophical and social basis for a culture in which jealousy is no longer a natural law, where sexual desires no longer have to be suppressed and where faithfulness between two lovers no longer breaks down because of a too narrow vision of love. "Knowing love" is the term he uses for the process of developing a culture without sexual re- pression, fear and violence.