From the author of On Getting Better and On Wanting to Change, Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives.
Side effects are things we do not intend. Phillips intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life's down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves.
Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.
| ISBN: | 9780141012506 |
| Publication date: | 26th July 2007 |
| Author: | Adam Phillips |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 317 pages |
| Genres: |
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology |
From the author of On Getting Better and On Wanting to Change, Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives.
Side effects are things we do not intend. Phillips intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life's down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves.
Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.
Side Effects features in the following genres: Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology
Side Effects is available in Paperback
Side Effects was written by Adam Phillips and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Side Effects has 317 pages
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