Isbn: 9780571209736 - promises, promises: essays on literature and psychoanalysis (34 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Promises, Promises This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: New. Main. Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It confirms Adam Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, drama, poetry and history. This collection gives us insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's Night Train, and provides a case history of clutter. In a final essay, the author turns to the question - why sign up for analysis when you could read a book?Promoting everywhere a refreshing version of a psychoanalysis that is more committed to happiness and inspiration than to self-knowledge or some absolute truth, Promises, Promises reaffirms Adam Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of one reviewer, 'hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight.'.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Promises, Promises (2002) ? Adam Phillips (Faber & Faber) ISBN: 9780571209736 ? Condition: Good ? Sold by Crappy Old Books? What are promises if not tiny, elegant lies we agree to believe on purpose? In Promises, Promises , Britain?s wittiest psychoanalyst-essayist, Adam Phillips , invites you into the waiting room of desire and hands you a magazine with all the pages missing. He writes about the vows we make to lovers, children, politicians, gods, and?most dangerously?ourselves; how every promise is a story about the future told by a person who has never met it. Phillips is that rare thinker who can discuss Freud without sounding like a museum audio guide. He pirouettes from literature to daydreams, from nursery to consulting room, showing how the human appetite for ?later? structures everything from romance to self-help. He suggests?calmly, mischievously?that we keep promises not because we?re good, but because we?re curious about who we?ll have to become to keep them. And the promises we break? Those are the biographies we almost wrote. Expect aperçus that land like neat espresso shots, sentences that begin politely and end by rearranging the furniture, and examples that feel uncomfortably accurate: the promise to be a new person on Monday; the promise that a book will fix us by page 200; the promise that love will make us simple, when it reliably makes us interesting. Phillips?s trick is to make the obvious feel newly scandalous and the scandalous feel oddly reasonable. This Good copy from Crappy Old Books? has that dignified paperback patina?discreet spine crease (lived experience), faint sun-kiss to the cover (Mediterranean? windowsill?), and pages that turn like a considered opinion. It?s handsome enough for the nightstand, portable enough for the queue, and resilient enough for marginalia in pencil you?ll pretend not to write. Read it if you enjoy your psychology lightly carbonated and your philosophy flirtatious. Keep it if you suspect the most consequential promises are the ones we make when nobody?s listening. And leave it visible: visitors will assume you?re the sort of person who has complicated thoughts about hope , and the attention span to finish them. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE.…

Zustand: New. pp. xviii + 376.

Zustand: New. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. . 2002. Main. Paperback. . . . .…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Foxed. 400 pages.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 7.72x4.96x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. . 2002. Main. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In a virtuoso collection of essays, Adam Phillips sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise What are psychoanalysis and literature good for And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It confirms Adam Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, drama, poetry and history. This collection gives us insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky''s diary and Martin Amis''s Night Train, and provides a case history of clutter. In a final essay, the author turns to the question - why sign up for analysis when you could read a book Promoting everywhere a refreshing version of a psychoanalysis that is more committed to happiness and inspiration than to self-knowledge or some absolute truth, Promises, Promises reaffirms Adam Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of one reviewer, ''hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight.''.…