📚 4 Books mentioned in "Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship | Lex Fridman Podcast #277" of Lex Fridman Podcast

And so this book's name is kind of corny, but it's written by an analyst, again, it's called 'Can Love Last?' It's a book about how really good strong relationships are the consequence of people constantly moving through this dependency-objectification dynamic.

In this segment, Andrew Huberman discusses the book 'Can Love Last?', which explores how strong relationships are formed through the dynamics of dependency and objectification.

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Do you remember the book 'All Quiet on the Western Front' from World War I? There's a line that compares war to the smell of a skunk—from there’s an almost delicious quality in experiencing it.

In this segment, Lex recalls the book 'All Quiet on the Western Front' and discusses a notable line that draws a comparison between the experience of war and the distinct smell of a skunk.

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There's a book called 'The Erotic Imagination.' It's a very psychoanalytic book written by a psychoanalyst that talks about—well, here's the uncomfortable reality: Freud was at least right about one thing, which is that the brain circuitry that you use to develop attachments to your caregivers, mother and father, or other caregivers do not disappear when you hit puberty.

In this segment, Lex discusses the book 'The Erotic Imagination,' which explores psychoanalytic concepts, including how the brain circuitry for forming attachments to caregivers remains active even after puberty.

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He has a great biography called 'On the Move,' and there's a wonderful documentary that just came out about him—he died in 2015. I'm actually kind of a collector of his things.

Lex Fridman discusses a biography of Oliver Sacks titled 'On the Move' and shares his interest in collecting items related to Sacks.

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