"Even if relationships are destructive, people cling together," photographer Nan Goldin writes in the introduction to the 1996 edition of her seminal monograph The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, originally published in 1986.
She continues: "I have a strong desire to be independent, but at the same time a craving for the intensity that comes from interdependency. The tension this creates seems to be a universal problem: the struggle between autonomy and dependency."
