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Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting- on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship ...Show more
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
For Adam Phillips - as for Freud and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply engaging book ...Show more
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips. We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us. In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
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Category: Essays & Letters
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th ...Show more
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacr ...Show more
One Way and Another: New & Selected Essa by Adam Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
In the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as well as his own unique thinking. Investigating subjects as diverse as desire, family, happiness, tickling, forgetting and even boredom, Phillips proves himse ...Show more
One Way and Another - New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
One Way and Another is an affirmation of Adam Phillips' position as one of the most literary essayists today. With an introduction by John Banville. Throughout his brilliant career, Adam Phillips has lent a new and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay, and in so doing revived the form for ...Show more
Unforbidden Pleasures by PHILLIPS ADAM
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Category: Essays & Letters
"We frequently talk about forbidden pleasures. But why do we rarely discuss pleasures we take for granted? We worry over the things we deny ourselves while paying little attention to our real enjoyment of available pleasures. But in neglecting what we have in favour of what we don't, asks Adam Phillips ...Show more
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentie ...Show more
Winnicott by PHILLIPS ADAM
$19.99 AUD
Category: Parenting
D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his death. Adam Phillips' short book, now issued with a new preface, is an el ...Show more
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