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- Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.
- Author(s): Adam Phillips
- 176 Pages
- Psychology, Social Psychology
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Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want.
The life you want: this concept is an ever-present but elusive one. It is the arena where the personal and the political overlap--and we find ourselves somewhat obsessed by this ideal. It's easy to be confused, confounded, and seduced by it. The Life You Want presents Adam Phillips's agile mind engaging the questions surrounding the topic: How do we get the ideas we have? What do we do, and fail to do, about actually getting the lives we want? Is it possible to actually want (and enjoy) one's life, rather than merely enduring it--especially in a culture that insistently promotes this ideal and makes it difficult for so many people? Slipping between sources literary and psychoanalytic and back again, Phillips, with his "mild, expansive way of explaining the insights that psychoanalysis offers" (The Washington Post), guides us through an existential tangle packaged in the context of the current moment, to explore a perennial question.Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.38 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Social Psychology
Genre: Psychology
Number of Pages: 176
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
Author: Adam Phillips
Language: English
Street Date: March 31, 2026
TCIN: 1003181068
UPC: 9780374617974
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-6379
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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