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9780465056781

Promises, Promises Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465056781

  • ISBN10:

    0465056784

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-02-07
  • Publisher: Basic Books

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Summary

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings the two gifts to bear upon each other, reaching far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, novels, poetry, and history to speculate on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders.

Author Biography

Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Poetry and Psychoanalysis
1(34)
Bombs Away
35(24)
Clutter: A Case History
59(13)
Winnicott's Hamlet
72(20)
The Sexual Liberation of Fritz Wittels
92(15)
The Manicuring of Jacques Lacan
107(6)
Pessoa's Appearances
113(12)
On Translating a Person
125(23)
Appreciating Pater
148(13)
Minding Out
161(13)
An Answer to Questions
174(7)
Smile
181(7)
Martin Amis and the Female Policeman
188(12)
Narcissism, For and Against
200(26)
Roaring Boy
226(12)
Frederick Seidel's New Poetry
238(19)
Coming to Grief
257(11)
Editing Housman
268(14)
On Eating, and Preferring Not To
282(14)
The Pragmatics of Passion
296(14)
Farber's Quibble
310(12)
Prynne Collected
322(4)
Christopher Hill's Revolution and Me
326(8)
Sameness is All
334

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