On Getting Better
$25.14
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
From the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling companion to On Wanting to Change that asks what it means to get better.
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 the sentences we write because of the sentences…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241541883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241541883 |
| Author: | Adam Phillips |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 111mm x 180mm |
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Critics Review
Improvisatory and energetic, buoyed by thought-enacting questions and self-qualifications … His writing is as much literary-critical as psychoanalytic, as likely to invoke Shakespeare or Emerson as Freud or Lacan … What one goes to his writing for - and what it often delivers - are arresting, renewing paraphrases that divert you from your overfamiliar tracks * New Statesman *
On Getting Better, a companion volume, questions what we really mean when we talk about improving our internal lives and how it always begins in an idealised version of ourselves. Philips is an erudite and highly engaging writer: how, he asks, can we manage change when it “precipitates us into an unpredictable future?” * Guardian *
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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