Missing Out In Praise of the Unlived Life

Name: Missing Out In Praise of the Unlived Life
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ISBN: 9781250043511

ISBN-10: 1250043514

ISBN-13: 9781250043511

Edition: N/A

Authors: Adam Phillips

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A TRANSFORMATIVE BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES WE WISH WE HAD AND WHAT THEY CAN TEACH US ABOUT WHO WE AREAll of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires. We become haunted by the myth of our own potential, of what it might be that we have in ourselves to be or to do. Our lives become testaements to our missed opportunities. But what happens if we remove the idea of failure from this equation? With his flair for graceful…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 12/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.63" wide x 8.27" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.418
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.