Imprint: Penguin
Published: 04/07/2013
ISBN: 9780141031811
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips, Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst.
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 into the gap between who we are and who we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life.
With his trademark combination of open-minded enquiry and exhilarating argument, drawing primarily on the twin worlds of literature and psychoanalysis, Phillips will delight readers old and new in this much-anticipated book.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 04/07/2013
ISBN: 9780141031811
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
Phillips radiates infectious charm
Playfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis
'Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail.
Phillips is a wonderful writer, his prose limpid and exact
Praise for Adam Phillips
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
His writing is a lively source of provocation, repetition, self-renewal