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Going Sane (Paperback)
Adam Phillips
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Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous
state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill
entire libraries, until now no one has thought to engage
exclusively with the idea of sanity. In a society governed by
indulgence and excess, madness is the state of mind we identify
with most keenly. Though ultimately destructive, it is often
credited as the wellspring of genius, individuality, and
self-expression. Sanity, on the other hand, confounds us. One of
the world's most respected psychoanalysts and original thinkers,
Adam Phillips redresses this historical imbalance. He strips our
lives back to essentials, focusing on how we--as human beings,
parents, lovers, as people to whom work matters--can make space for
a sane and well-balanced attitude to living. In a world saturated
by tales of dysfunction and suffering, he offers a way forward that
is as down-to-earth and realistic as it is uplifting and hopeful.
--Daphne Merkin, author of DREAMING OF HITLER: Passions and
Provocations
An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of
culture, fashion, and material production The history of the
handbag-its design, how it has been made, used, and worn-reveals
something essential about women's lives over the past 500 years.
Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can
also be elusive, an object of desire, secrecy, and even fear.
Handbags explores these rich histories and multiple meanings. This
book features specially commissioned photographs of an
extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that
date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired
for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in
Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by
experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative
practices are revealed in Handbags. Essays by leading fashion
historians and an acclaimed psychoanalyst investigate the history
of gesture, the psychoanalysis of bags, and the museum's
state-of-the-art mannequins and archive cabinets. In order to
preserve the words that describe the unique qualities of each bag,
a terminology of handbags has been compiled.
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Roland Barthes (Paperback)
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard; Foreword by Adam Phillips
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R278
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First published in 1977, "Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes "is the
great literary theorist's most original work--a brilliant and
playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical
to reveal Roland Barthes's tastes, his childhood, his education,
his passions and regrets.
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On Kindness (Paperback)
Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
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R180
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What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place
in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian
Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis
of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting
that acts of kindness occur when we are at our most open and
honest, they ask why it is that our faith in kindness has been
shaken - and why we are all too ready to believe that antagonism
has taken its place.
Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam
Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems
and possibilities of human intimacy. Their conversation takes as
its point of departure psychoanalysis and its central importance to
the modern imagination--though equally important is their shared
sense that by misleading us about the importance of self-knowledge
and the danger of narcissism, psychoanalysis has failed to realize
its most exciting and innovative relational potential.
In pursuit of new forms of intimacy they take up a range of
concerns across a variety of contexts. To test the hypothesis that
the essence of the analytic exchange is intimate talk without sex,
they compare Patrice Leconte's film about an accountant mistaken
for a psychoanalyst, "Intimate Strangers," with Henry James's
classic novella "The Beast in the Jungle." A discussion of the
radical practice of barebacking--unprotected anal sex between gay
men--delineates an intimacy that rejects the personal. Even serial
killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the Bush administration's war on terror
enter the scene as the conversation turns to the way aggression
thrills and gratifies the ego. Finally, in a reading of Socrates'
theory of love from Plato's "Phaedrus," Bersani and Phillips call
for a new form of intimacy which they term "impersonal narcissism":
a divestiture of the ego and a recognition of one's
non-psychological potential self in others. This revolutionary way
of relating to the world, they contend, could lead to a new human
freedom by mitigating the horrifying violence we blithely accept as
part of human nature.
Charmingly persuasive and daringly provocative, "Intimacies" is a
rare opportunity to listen in on two brilliant thinkers as they
explore new ways of thinking about the human psyche.
A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from
Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On
Kindness. What we find of interest may tell us more than we
think... 'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find
interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find
interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite
ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial
curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship
between the two) . . .' Based on three connected talks on the
subject of attention, this pocket-sized book is a quirky and
memorable introduction to the concept of our attention - how we
spend it, and what it might tell us about ourselves. From Britain's
pre-eminent psychoanalyst, this is an essential new addition to the
Adam Phillips canon. 'The best living essayist writing in English'
- John Gray
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On Kindness (Paperback)
Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
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R319
R258
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Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and
most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so
dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it
often the last pleasure we permit ourselves? And why--despite our
longing--are we often suspicious when we are on the receiving end
of it?
Drawing on intellectual history, literature, psychoanalysis, and
contemporary social theory, this brief and essential book will
return to its readers what Marcus Aurelius declared was mankind's
"greatest delight": the intense satisfactions of generosity and
compassion.
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Gemma Atkinson, Joshua Bowman, Isabella Calthorpe, Cornelius Clarke, Antony De Liseo, …
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R85
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British werewolf horror. When Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe)
reluctantly returns to her troubled family home in the deepest
countryside, she and her family and friends find themselves
besieged by a dark and deadly horror that threatens to wipe out the
entire party. Tom Felton, Gemma Atkinson and Joshua Bowman co-star.
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Actual Life (Hardcover)
Toby Glanville; Introduction by David Chandler; Edited by Adam Phillips
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Monster Pack (DVD)
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Winnicott (Paperback)
Adam Phillips
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R224
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D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is
Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World
(all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with
over thirty years after his death. Adam Phillips's short book, now
issued with a new preface, is an elegant, thoughtful attempt to get
to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work
with children and mothers (and the wider implications their
relationship has for all of us) continues to be profoundly relevant
and fascinating.
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including
Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego,
the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case
studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous
selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its
extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as
the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of
reading. Here we can see Freud's writings as readings and
listenings, deciphering the secrets of the mind, finding words for
desires that have never found expression. Much more than this,
however, The Penguin Freud Reader presents a compelling reading of
life as we experience it today, and a way in to the work of one of
the most haunting writers of the modern age.
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Various Artists - Believe (CD)
Audrey Wheeler, Richie Sambora, Mark Taylor, Hamish Stewaet, Adam Phillips, …
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R131
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From one of the world's foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes
a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysis
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud-Freud up until the
age of fifty-that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about
the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that
involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was
himself skeptical of the writing of such stories. In this
biography, Adam Phillips, whom the New Yorker calls "Britain's
foremost psychoanalytical writer," emphasizes the largely and
inevitably undocumented story of Freud's earliest years as the
oldest-and favored-son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and
suggests that the psychoanalysis Freud invented was, among many
other things, a psychology of the immigrant-increasingly, of
course, everybody's status in the modern world. Psychoanalysis was
also Freud's way of coming to terms with the fate of the Jews in
Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. So as
well as incorporating the writings of Freud and his contemporaries,
Becoming Freud also uses the work of historians of the Jews in
Europe in this significant period in their lives, a period of
unprecedented political freedom and mounting persecution. Phillips
concludes by speculating what psychoanalysis might have become if
Freud had died in 1906, before the emergence of a psychoanalytic
movement over which he had to preside.
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In Writing (Paperback)
Adam Phillips
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Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On
Kindness A collection of literary essays like no other - exploring
the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from
Britain's leading psychoanalyst. For Adam Phillips - as for Freud
and many of his followers - poetry and poets have always held an
essential place, as both precursors and unofficial collaborators in
the psychoanalytic project. But the same has never held true in
reverse. What, Phillips wonders, at the start of this deeply
engaging book, has psychoanalysis meant for writers? And what can
writing do for psychoanalysis? Phillips explores these questions
through an exhilarating series of encounters with - and vivid
readings of - writers he has loved, from Byron and Barthes to
Shakespeare and Sebald. And in the process he demonstrates, through
his own unique style, how literature and psychoanalysis can speak
to and of each other. 'Adam Phillips is that rarest of phenomena, a
trained clinician who is also a sublime writer' - John Banville,
author of The Sea 'Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed,
dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored' Observer
'One of those writers whom it is a pleasure simply to hear think'
Sunday Telegraph
The author is committed to psychoanalysis as part of a wider
cultural conversation, and this unique collection of essays on a
wide range of relatively unexplored subjects combines literary and
philosophical commentary with vivid clinical vignettes.'Like
Chekhov, Phillips writes as well as he doctors, and his fascination
with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good
storyteller.He has a welcome openness to the essential strangeness
of every person; this alone is reason enough to read him.' Jane
Mendelsohn, Guardian
Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are
supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and
preserve a balance of power in our government. Disturbed people are
described as unbalanced. In this insightful, charming book, the
philosopher and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips looks afresh at balance
(and its shadow, excess) and asks if achieving the former is such
an admirable goal. From this perspective, Phillips examines the
explosive topics of money, sex, parenthood, faith, and education.
In his exhilarating and casually brilliant explorations of case
studies, fairy tales, works of art, and literature, the paradoxes
inherent in our appetites and fears are revealed.
Brackenwood is an animated web series created by Adam Phillips.
This is a collection of his rough original character sketches and
creature designs spanning a decade of Brackenwood series
development. It includes many steps in the evolution of these
characters from the earliest ideas to some current designs. The
Brackenwood Sketchbook contains very few clean or finished
drawings. All are scanned originals, many from crumpled and smudged
paper taken from storage especially for this compilation.
Never Before Published. Complete List Of Nazi War Criminals Many Of
Whom Are Still At Large.
Never Before Published. Complete List Of Nazi War Criminals Many Of
Whom Are Still At Large.
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On Balance (Paperback)
Adam Phillips
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R374
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Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are
supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and
preserve a balance of power in our government. Disturbed people are
described as unbalanced. In this insightful, charming book, the
philosopher and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips looks afresh at balance
(and its shadow, excess) and asks if achieving the former is such
an admirable goal. From this perspective, Phillips examines the
explosive topics of money, sex, parenthood, faith, and education.
In his exhilarating and casually brilliant explorations of case
studies, fairy tales, works of art, and literature, the paradoxes
inherent in our appetites and fears are revealed.
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