On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

Name: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
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ISBN: 9780674634633

ISBN-10: 0674634632

ISBN-13: 9780674634633

Edition: 1993

Authors: Adam Phillips

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In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.704
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.



Introduction



On Tickling



First Hates: Phobias in Theory



On Risk and Solitude



On Composure



Worrying and Its Discontents



Returning the Dream: In Memoriam Masud Khan



On Being Bored



Looking at Obstacles



Plotting for Kisses



Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Transference



Psychoanalysis and Idolatry


Notes


Credits


Index