They literally met and fell in love on a road out of the concentration camps and into freedom. Both of her parents were the only people left of their families. She grew up speaking multiple languages at home above her family clothing shop in Antwerp in Belgium, a child of Polish Holocaust survivors. She’d studied Jewish identity in different national contexts, and focused on relationships between different minority groups in the U.S., the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.Įsther Perel was a therapist for 20 years before she began to write about sexuality. It is a transcendent experience of life, because it is an act of the imagination. It is actually a spiritual, mystical experience of life. And that is way beyond the description of sexuality. It is about how people connect to this quality of aliveness, of vibrancy, of vitality, of renewal. And her deep understanding of “erotic intelligence” feels so interesting as we grapple with emergent dynamics of the human condition writ large, coupled or not, and both intimate and societal.Įsther Perel: My book and my work is about eroticism. It’s also called Where Should We Begin? The singular insights in the fascinating conversation I had with Esther in 2019 speak to the flip side of social isolation - the incomparably intense experience many have now had of togetherness. And now, in the post-2020 world, she’s launching a game to catalyze, at home, her kind of conversation. Krista Tippett, host: The psychotherapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, her books, and her podcast, Where Should We Begin? Episode after episode lays bare the theater of relationship, which is also the drama of being human.
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