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Missing Out - In Praise of the Unlived Life (Paperback)
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Missing Out - In Praise of the Unlived Life (Paperback)
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A TRANSFORMATIVE BOOK ABOUT THE LIVES WE WISH WE HAD AND WHAT THEY
CAN TEACH US ABOUT WHO WE ARE
All 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 we have in ourselves to be or to do. And this
can make of our lives a perpetual game of falling short.
But what happens if we remove the idea of failure from the
equation? With his flair for graceful paradox, the acclaimed
psychoanalyst Adam Phillips suggests that if we accept frustration
as a way of outlining what we really want, satisfaction suddenly
becomes possible. To crave a life without frustration is to crave a
life without the potential to identify and accomplish our desires.
In "Missing Out," an elegant, compassionate, and absorbing book,
Phillips draws deeply on his own clinical experience as well as on
the works of Shakespeare and Freud, of D. W. Winnicott and William
James, to suggest that frustration, not getting it, and getting
away with it are all chapters in our unlived lives--and may be
essential to the one fully lived.
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