On Flirtation

Name: On Flirtation
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ISBN: 9780674634404

ISBN-10: 0674634403

ISBN-13: 9780674634404

Edition: 1994

Authors: Adam Phillips

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People tend to flirt only with serious things--madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of commitment? Or is it, as Adam Phillips suggests, a productive pleasure, keeping things in play, letting us get to know them in different ways, allowing us the fascination of what is unconvincing? This is a book about the possibilities of flirtation, its risks and instructive amusements--about the spaces flirtation opens in the stories we tell ourselves, particularly within the framework of psychoanalysis. Phillips looks at life as a tale to be told but rejects the idea of a master plot. Instead,…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Adam Phillips is the author of six previous books, including "The Beast in the Nursery" & "Monogamy" (both available form Vintage). Formerly the principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, he lives in England.



Preface


Acknowledgements


On Flirtation


An Introduction



The Uses of the Past



Contingency for Beginners



Freud and the Uses of Forgetting



On Love



On Success



Besides Good and Evil



The Telling of Selves



Psychoanalysis Reviewed



Depression



Anna Freud



Perversion



Freud and Jones



Cross-Dressing



Erich Fromm



Guilt



Freud's Circle



Futures



Writing Outside



Philip Roth's Patrimony



Isaac Rosenberg's English



Karl Kraus's Complaint



John Clare's Exposure


Bibliography


Index