On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary...
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On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Phillips, Adam

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

CHF 53.68

On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

CHF 53.68
Author: Adam Phillips
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying.

He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination.



Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 07/15/1998
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.01w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780674634633

About the Author
Phillips, Adam: - Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London.

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