On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life by Adam Phillips

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  • Pub. Date: July 1998
  • 160pp
  • Sales Rank: 323,575

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    • Pub. Date: July 1998
    • Publisher: Harvard University Press
    • Format: Paperback, 160pp
    • Sales Rank: 323,575

    Synopsis

    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.

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    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.

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    A set of fascinating meditations on underinvestigated themes in psychoanalysis--e.g., kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, and composure. Most of the essays have been previously published. Accessible to a general audience. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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    Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London.

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