Chapter 17: Effect a Regression Summary and Analysis

In this chapter the book retains the same style and tone but gets a touch more psychological in theory as the author gets into the significance of influencing the emotions of whomever one is attempting to seduce.

The first step is acknowledging how much we have noticed that deep emotions are often stirred up in intimacy, and especially in romance. The important lessons in this part of the story are learning how to use them intentionally and which kind to use. The answer, Robert Greene insists, is regression. How one is going to regress and how to work a partner's regressed states are the key to successful seduction. Greene names four types of regressions—doubtless at least one will strike the reader as familiar, possibly all of them. The infantile regression goes straight to...