| Promises, Promises: Essays on Literature and Psychoanalysis Contributor(s): Phillips, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465056784 ISBN-13: 9780465056781 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist -- and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings the two gifts to bear upon each other, reaching far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 2011453583 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.05" W x 8.08" (0.93 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings these two gifts to bear upon each other, speculating on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature and on the connections between them. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. Promises, Promises reveals Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse, into art, novels, poetry, and history. This collection gives us insights into Martin Amis's Night Train, Nijinsky's diary, Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, Amy Clampitt, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, and a case history of clutter. It confirms Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of the Guardian, hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight. |