Don Juan’s Wager

Samir Dayal introduces Rachline’s book and captures the essence of Rachline’s argument from a psychoanalytic perspective. Dayal says, “Giovannism is a celebration of love, not irresponsibility in love. Through a refusal to pay what one owes, the contemporary attitude of giovannism is paradoxically an opening to the other, a sustaining of the interdependence of human beings in social relationships…(W)hen we cede repetition (repetitive modes such as assembly-line production) to the province of the machine, then the singular can become more properly the realm of the truly human, and thus make the human freer. This is one of Rachline’s genuinely bracing and refreshing ideas.”