Desire Machines. A Romanian Love Charms Database - Sanda Golopentia

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Love charms are marginalized forms of psychological energizing and healing, which can still be encountered locally in rural Europe. To the postmodern Western intellectual, whose insight is not blurred by exclusive cultural taxonomies, they might appear to be the recessive counterpart of currently dominant psychotherapeutic practices. Like psychotherapy, love charming is performed in private sessions, by a legitimate specialist, on behalf of a suffering client, by means of general healing fiction...