One way and another
Subtitle: new and selected essays
By: Adam Phillips
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780241145807; 9780241964118
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Popular works; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Essays
Description: Throughout his career, Adam Phillips has lent a fresh and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay. This title collects nineteen pieces that have best defined his thinking - including 'On Tickling', 'On Being Bored' and 'Clutter: A Case History' - along with a selection of new writings and an introduction by a Man Booker Prize winner.--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: On Tickling; title: On Being Bored; title: Worrying and Its Discontents; title: Looking at Obstacles; title: First Hates; title: On Success; title: Contingency for Beginners; title: The Uses of Forgetting; title: Clutter; title: Narcissism, For and Against; title: Bombs Away; title: Against Inhibition; title: Superiorities; title: Making It Old; title: The Master-Mind Lectures; title: For the Family; title: The Dream Horizon; title: The Uses of Desire; title: Talking Nonsense and Knowing When to Stop; title: Arbus's Freaks; title: My Happiness Right or Wrong; title: Judas for Now; title: Punishing Parents; title: On Compromise; title: Psychoanalysis; or, Is It Worth It?; title: Coda: Up to a Point.