Adam Phillips, Author . Fourth Estate $24.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-00-715539-2
In classic psychoanalytic style, Phillips strips our lives down to the fundamentals to illustrate the delicate balance between sanity and insanity. Sanity, he notes, "has never been a popular word, or indeed... a condition one might write a book
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Adam Phillips, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-21257-5
British psychologist, philosopher, and literary critic Phillips (Going Sane) casts his net widely in this collection of lectures, broadcasts, articles, and unpublished essays, of varying lengths. Phillips examines our paradoxical desire for balance...
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Adam Phillips, Author Harvard University Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-674-87479-4
Psychoanalysts, argues Phillips (On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored), must realize that psychic life will always be much more complicated than the explanations they impose on it; they must give up the authority over experience once granted them...
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Adam Phillips, Author Pantheon Books $17 (144p) ISBN 978-0-679-44264-6
Monogamy, suggests English psychoanalyst Phillips in this iconoclastic meditation, is-like infidelity-a compulsion rooted in our need for hope and reassurance. At its too-frequent worst, he notes, monogamous marriage degenerates into dulling routine
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Adam Phillips, Author Basic Books $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-05679-8
Though Equals is psychoanalyst-essayist Adam Phillips's (On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored) attempt to branch out into political thinking, the best essays in the collection, many of which have been previously published, are the ones about...
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Adam Phillips, Author, Dan Frank, Editor . Pantheon $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-40636-2
"We cannot describe ourselves without also describing what we need to escape from, and what we believe we need to escape to," argues psychoanalyst Phillips (Promises, Promises; On Monogamy; etc.). He explores literature and mythology—fr
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Adam Phillips, Author, Fouad Ajami, Author Pantheon Books $4.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-40150-3
In the mid-20th century, a visionary generation of Arab writers and intellectuals attempted to blend the best of ""Arab heritage"" with that of ""contemporary Western civilization and culture"" to create an enlightened ""Arab awakening."" In this...
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Adam Phillips. Yale Univ., $25 (200p) ISBN 978-0-300-15866-3
Renowned psychoanalyst Phillips (One Way and Another) conjures up a vibrant portrait of Sigmund Freud, examining psychiatry's most famous figure as it contends with the difficulties of placing his life in biographic form. In contrast to the more...
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Adam Phillips. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374278021
Phillips (On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored), a British psychoanalyst, explores the tension between ”forbidden” and “unforbidden” pleasures in this dense, erudite book. Going back to the story of Genesis and to Milton’s retelling of it in...
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Adam Phillips. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-61414-0
“We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t,” observes psychoanalyst Phillips (On Wanting to Change) at the outset of this intermittently insightful analysis. Though he touches on the subject of suicide—the “
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Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips. Yale Univ, $28 (232p) ISBN 978-0-300-27636-7
Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt (The Swerve) teams up with psychoanalyst Phillips (On Missing Out) for an uneven exploration of second chances in literature. In the book’s standout first half, Greenblatt unravels the crucial role second chances play...
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