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On Balance
Adam Phillips
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Description for On Balance
Paperback. Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? This title explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives. It provides arguments, wordplay and more. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; VSP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
Are we too obsessed with excess?
What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour?
And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be?
In On Balance, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, needs and motives.
In essays on excess, childhood development, fairy tales and the pursuit of happiness, Phillips provides exhilarating arguments, witty wordplay and much intellectual and emotional food for thought on literature and life.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
235g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241143896
SKU
V9780241143896
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99-4
About 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 Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor ... Read more
Reviews for On Balance
The best living essayist writing in English Phillips is a wonderful writer, his prose limpid and exact, and this is a deep and stimulating book
Sunday Times
Intriguing and radical questions about the vital information strong responses and desires provide, and how we might use this to identify what we want
Guardian
His writing is a ... Read more
Sunday Times
Intriguing and radical questions about the vital information strong responses and desires provide, and how we might use this to identify what we want
Guardian
His writing is a ... Read more