Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories

Adam Phillips has been called the psychotherapist of the floating world and the closest thing we have...
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Author: Adam Phillips
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Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories by Phillips, Adam

Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories

$193.66

Darwin's Worms on Life Stories and Death Stories

$193.66
Author: Adam Phillips
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Adam Phillips has been called the psychotherapist of the floating world and the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness. His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death. In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story.

Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 02/01/2001
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.24w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780465056767


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/18/2001 pg. 32
Entertainment Weekly 03/30/2001 pg. 63

About the Author
Adam Phillips has been called the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness. Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box.

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