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Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
$17.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
'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
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$45.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
In Writing by Adam Phillips
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
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
$30.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
A TRANSFORMATIVE BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES WE WISH WE HAD AND WHAT THEY CAN TEACH US ABOUT WHO WE AREAll of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presen ...Show more
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$28.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
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
Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
All of us lead two parallel lives: the life we actually live and the one that we wish for and fantasise about. And this life unlived (the one that never actually happens, the one we might be living but for some reason are not) can occupy an extraordinary part of our mental life. We share our lives, in a ...Show more
On Balance by Adam Phillips
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance. When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the pala ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
$17.00 AUD
Category: Psychology
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: Psychology
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
On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips
$17.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we t ...Show more
One Way and Another - New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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