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On Flirtation
Adam Phillips
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Description for On Flirtation
Paperback. Building on his collection of psychoanalytic essays, "On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored", Phillips examines the subject of flirtation and explores the virtues of being uncommitted and the pleasures of uncertainty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMU; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 0. Weight in Grams: 205.
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. These buoyant essays promote a psychoanalysis with a light touch, a psychoanalysis for pleasure and curiosity. 'In On Flirtation, he has again deployed all his erudition and perception to beguiling effect . . . Adam Phillips may well be one of our greatest contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers.' Independent on Sunday
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. These buoyant essays promote a psychoanalysis with a light touch, a psychoanalysis for pleasure and curiosity. 'In On Flirtation, he has again deployed all his erudition and perception to beguiling effect . . . Adam Phillips may well be one of our greatest contemporary psychoanalytic thinkers.' Independent on Sunday
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
204g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571174904
SKU
V9780571174904
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Ref
99-14
About Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud. Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a ... Read more
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