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Perel: Defining intimacy as sharing inner life is a recent Western concept
“Intimacy is what I share with you about my inner life. That's a very, very recent Western new definition of the word intimacy.”
Esther Perel Dec 10, 2019 ▶ 46:01 #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
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Perel: Father survived 14 camps by organizing kitchen black market
“My dad the last year and a half in one of the camps, he was in 14 of them basically organized some kind of a black market with the kitchen around You know, food and potatoes, or potato peels more correctly, and managed to actually feed the Germans as well.”
Esther Perel Dec 10, 2019 ▶ 4:20 #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
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Perel: Parents credited Holocaust survival primarily to sheer luck
“I think my parents always said luck came first, just sheer luck, that they were not rounded up on a certain morning when they would take a thousand people and move them from the labor camp to the extermination camp.”
Esther Perel Dec 10, 2019 ▶ 2:29 #71 Esther Perel: Cultivating Desire
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