Unforbidden Pleasures - Hardcover

Phillips, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374278024 ISBN 13: 9780374278021

Verlag: FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures?

Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first parents," Adam and Eve, to the work of the great psychoanalytic thinkers.

Forbidden pleasures, he argues, are the ones we tend to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from unforbidden pleasures than from those that are taboo. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us. An ambitious book that speaks to the precariousness of modern life, Unforbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological, and social dynamics that govern human desire and shape our everyday reality.

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Adam Phillips is one of the foremost psychoanalysts practicing in the world today, and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of many books, including On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored and On Balance. He is also the coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, of On Kindness.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374278024
• ISBN 13: 9780374278021
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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