| On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life Contributor(s): Phillips, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674634632 ISBN-13: 9780674634633 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: Psychotherapist Adam Phillips focuses on a variety of subjects rarely investigated by psychoanalysis--such things as kissing, worrying, risk, and solitude. Phillips rejects the common notion that only the examined life is worth living, asserting that one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists interpretation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 92020662 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.01" W x 8.97" (0.53 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Adam: - Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London. |