On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored

Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

AvAdam Phillips

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674634633

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Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Mer om författaren

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

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Adam Phillips...writes about magnificently light subjects (kissing, tickling and, best of all, worrying) with a great deal of insight...He writes with farsighted equanimity about everything from solitude to spiders. In this regard, he's a bit like an Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis, both affable and unalarmed.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. On Tickling 2. First Hates: Phobias in Theory 3. On Risk and Solitude 4. On Composure 5. Worrying and Its Discontents 6. Returning the Dream: In Memoriam Masud Khan 7. On Being Bored 8. Looking at Obstacles 9. Plotting for Kisses 10. Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Transference 11. Psychoanalysis and Idolatry Notes Credits Index