This essay is dedicated to those who have been separated: to lovers, to those who hate, to the indifferent, to the perplexed and to the confident, so that man may find the way to man again in freedom.” With these words begins the author his study of one of the most painful experiences for the human being: the definitive separation of those whom he loves. This study is delimited by complex problems ranging from the phenomenological and psychoanalytic aspects of death, to the anthropological aspects of separation, in life, from which it is loved, from lovers.

Through a broad casuistic spectrum, Caruso structurally demonstrates the dialectical interrelationships between libido and the instinct of death, which is undoubtedly a fundamental feature of our culture. This book presents scientifically in all its breadth, the problem that generates the separation of lovers as a phenomenology of death.