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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 think about change changes over time too.We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the sa...

A habitual drifter and a college basketball star tell concurrent stories of how they are lost, alternately destroyed and hopeful, as they try to figure out what to do with themselves, what's the point of it all, and what if they never figure it out? Set in northern Idaho, the title of the book is from a James Tate poem, "Manna, " which describes a moment of ineffable beauty and reassurance.

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 In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Roy...

Ieder van ons leidt twee parallelle levens: ons feitelijke leven en het leven dat we graag zouden willen, en waarover we fantaseren. Dit ongeleefde leven, dat er om welke reden dan ook nooit gekomen is, kan wel een groot beslag leggen op ons geestelijk welbevinden. Je zou kunnen zeggen dat we ons leven delen met de mensen die we niet geworden zijn - en dit kan vervolgens weer het verhaal van ons leven worden: een klaaglied om onvervulde behoef...

Menschliches Leid - Krankheit, Trennung, Tod - war über lange Zeit nur mit Aussicht auf das Leben nach dem Tod, auf Erlösung zu ertragen. Nach dem irdischen Jammertal wartete der himmlische Frieden. In einer Zeit, in der das Göttliche nur eine von vielen Erklärungen für unseren Ursprung, die Existenz des Bösen, für Unrecht und Leid ist, fällt es uns oft schwer, den unvermeidlichen kleinen und großen Katastrophen und vor allem dem Tod einen Pla...

Pre-eminent psychoanalyst Phillips explores what writing and psychoanalysis can offer one another, drawing on the work of Sebald, Shakespeare, Byron, Barthes and many others.

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HR manager/PI Chuck Restic must find a missing consultant wanted for murder to save his own corporate-and literal-neck.

Our favorite HR man-turned-detective is back, searching for the kidnapped granddaughter of a billionaire with a mysteriously murderous past.

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... aber drei sind ein Paar Warum eigentlich halten wir Monogamie für selbstverständlich? Wie gehen wir mit unseren »unerlaubten« Wünschen um? Jeder weiß, daß man - gleichgültig, wie sehr man seinen Partner liebt - jemand anderen begehren kann, und doch fällt es uns so schwer, darüber nachzudenken. Adam Phillips treibt schelmisch einen Keil zwischen unsere allzu gut verfugten Bilder. Er läßt die Luft des Witzes und der Reflexion in die gemütl...

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 In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Roy...

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 presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires. We become haunted...

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From one of the world's most respected and original psychoanalysts comes a groundbreaking and reassuring book on the nature of sanity and madness.

Psychoanalysis works by attending to the patient's side effects, "what falls out of his pockets once he starts speaking." Undergoing psychoanalytic therapy is always a leap into the dark--like dedicating our hearts and intellect to a powerful work of literature, it's impossible to know beforehand its ultimate effect and consequences. One must remain open to where the "side effects" will lead. Erudite, eloquent, and enthrallingly observant, Ada...

Sex is often the closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the family are really discussions about monogamy. Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation of the family and of family values that, as with anything that seems essential, we are very wary of being critical of it.

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the pleasures of uncertainty.