The Art of Seduction

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They create a sense of insecurity in their targets and when they reach the brink, they pull them back with show of warmth and attention. Your task as a seducer is to bring some flesh and blood into someone’s fantasy life by embodying a fantasy figure, or creating a scenario resembling that person’s dreams. Do not worry about looking foolish or making a mistake— any kind of deed that is self-sacrificing and for your targets’ sake will so overwhelm their emotions, they won’t notice anything else.

People are always susceptible to being seduced, because in fact everyone lacks a sense of completeness, feels something missing deep inside.But if, unlike the sociopath or psychopath, the would-be seducer does have a shred of conscience, living with the results and also the accumulated karma of such manipulative behaviour, would be highly unpleasant. In all arenas of life, you should never give the impression that you are angling for something— that will raise a resistance that you will never lower. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip. Although he does not preclude rational love between consenting adults by any means, there is enough evidence here of eternal truths about sexual relations which apply to male and female alike (albeit with different ‘modes’) and in homosexual liaisons as well. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process.

becasue clearly if you aren't cheating on your spouse or trying to take advantage of someone you are a fool. The Rake may end in hell, but the flames surrounding him often make him seem that much more desirable to women. Their weakness may be greed, vanity, boredom, some deeply repressed desire, a hunger for forbidden fruit. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Without tension, without anxiety and suspense, there can be no feeling of release, of true pleasure and joy.Yet, when he talks about power dynamics and seduction he delivers more insights and wisdom than most pick-up artists or psychologists. The Art of Seduction wants to give you an “ideal” seduction, but this “ideal” seduction is strewn over a long period of time where games and tactics will have your target fall head over heels for you. In 1995 he was involved in the planning and creation of the art school Fabrica, outside Venice, Italy.

The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. The book profiles nine types of seducers (with an additional profile for an "anti-seducer") and eighteen types of victims. Quite often we see the ostensible predator out-classed by a skilful 'victim' so that roles are reversed . It is a very unromantic book by conventional and Anglo-Saxon standards but it is not reductionist about sex.

About The Author: Robert Greene might not be a seducer himself and he doesn’t have any educational background in psychology. Some people condemn the techniques and strategies propounded here to be "amoral" and Machiavellian, but the truth of the matter is: they work.