Adam Phillips (1) (1954–)
Auteur de On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Adam Phillips, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Adam Phillips is the author of six previous books, including "The Beast in the Nursery" & "Monogamy" (both available form Vintage). Formerly the principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, he lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography)
Œuvres de Adam Phillips
On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life (1993) 289 exemplaires
Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings (2003) — Directeur de publication — 135 exemplaires
Sanity 2 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Recherches philosophiques sur l'origine de nos idées du sublime et du beau (1757) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 1,055 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1954-09-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol, England, UK
University of Oxford (St John's College) - Professions
- psychotherapist
literary critic
essayist - Courte biographie
- Adam Phillips is a British psychotherapist and essayist.
Since 2003 he has been the general editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics translations of Sigmund Freud. He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
Joan Acocella, writing in The New Yorker, described Phillips as "Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer", an opinion echoed by historian Élisabeth Roudinesco in Le Monde. [Wikipedia]
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- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 2,841
- Popularité
- #9,033
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 43
- ISBN
- 207
- Langues
- 14
- Favoris
- 1
And if you enjoy the frustration of being teased with implication, without the satisfaction of being fed with understanding, then this is the book for you. However, while the language sparkles, there's something missing - an original idea? significance? integrity? lived experience? It's hard to tell when you're blinded with so much rhetorical bling.
Still, there are useful nuggets here, albeit some sifted from other authors. Take for example his quotation of Franz Kafka's striking observation from Zurau Aphorisms:
'You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world - that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature - but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.'
There's a writer with a life, not just a keyboard.… (plus d'informations)