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.