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On Giving Up
Adam Phillips
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From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we
must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The
question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.
Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself
is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive,
something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly
unsettling, if not actively undesirable. There are always, it turns
out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear
beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe
we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a
critical moment - an attempt to make a different future. In On
Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both
the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up,
and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up
in order to feel more alive? 'One of the finest prose stylists in
the language, an Emerson of our time' John Banville 'The best
living essayist writing in English' John Gray
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Rock Against Racism (Hardcover)
Syd Shelton; Preface by Carol Tulloch; Introduction by Mark Sealy; Afterword by Red Saunders; Contributions by Paul Gilroy, …
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An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked
the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of
photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British
Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976-1981. For Shelton, this
work was a socialist act, what he calls a "graphic argument," on
behalf of marginalized lives. His practice of photographic activism
began in 1973 when he was driven to document the socio cultural and
political dynamics expressed on the streets of Sydney by urban
Australian Aboriginal communities, the working class, and the
architectural landscapes of these groups. Shelton's first solo show
in 1975, "Working Class Heroes" at the Sydney Film-makers
Cooperative, established his distinct activist eye. Shelton joined
RAR in early 1977 on his return to England from Australia. He did
so because he found his birthplace a more racist country than it
had been when he left. This was marked by the increased political
presence of the National Front, notably its gain of some 119,000
votes in the Greater London Council Elections of May 1977. Shelton,
like millions of others, feared for the future of multi-cultural
Britain. His contribution to RAR was to be on the London committee,
to create graphic material with other RAR members such as the RAR
publication "Temporary Hoarding," posters' badges and his
photography-RAR did not have an official photographer. Shelton's
instinctive need to document RAR-its events, contributors, and
supporters-has resulted in the largest collection of images on the
movement. Alongside his documentation of RAR, Shelton took
photographs of what he calls "the contextual images," the lives and
landscapes that were defined by others as "different," and that
often fueled racist acts of violence by simply being. What is
presented here are Shelton's authoritative visual statements as
participant-photographer on the social tempo in Britain at this
time and the activist potency of RAR. As collective activism, RAR's
success was dependent on individual contributions to fuel the
movement's activities across the country. This unique national, and
eventually international, charge incorporated the visual dynamic of
how Black and white RAR contributors and participants styled their
bodies as another antagonistic tool against racism. These were acts
of style activism-the making of an activist identity through the
considered composition of clothes, accessories, hairstyles, makeup,
and body language. Shelton's images prompt us to remember that the
individuals at RAR carnivals, gigs, and demonstrations were the
event-they were RAR. There are many versions of what RAR was and
its legacy. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism provides an
auto/biographical telling of that historical moment. It reflects on
how Shelton's work as a photographer contributed towards social
change at a critical moment of political and racial tension in
Britain.
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Roland Barthes (Paperback)
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard; Foreword by Adam Phillips
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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.
This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by
Christopher Bollas.
Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of
Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position
as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also
included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such as
"The Transformational Object" and "Psychic Genera," that deepen and
renew interest in unconscious creative processes. Two recent
essays, "Character and Interformality" and "The Wisdom of the
Dream" extend his work on aesthetics and the role of form in
everyday life.
This is a collection of papers that will appeal to anyone
interested in human experience and subjectivity.
Just coming off of Flash and looking for a guide? This book helps.
A traditional pen-to-paper artists? This will smooth out that
transition from paper to screen. Just starting out in the industry?
Create quality studio work and get noticed quicker. Animate to
Harmony takes the reader through Toon Boom's Animate software,
teaching those new to the program how to create high-quality, 2D
animation of all complexities. From scene set up to rendering,
readers learn how to navigate Animate's interface and how to create
'toons that can be viewed on a multitude of formats. And while the
main text focuses on Animate, Advanced Technique boxes throughout
the book take the reader through the Pro and Harmony versions of
the software, appealing to readers of all levels and with any of
the three main Toon Boom products.
This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by
Christopher Bollas.
Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of
Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position
as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also
included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such as
"The Transformational Object" and "Psychic Genera," that deepen and
renew interest in unconscious creative processes. Two recent
essays, "Character and Interformality" and "The Wisdom of the
Dream" extend his work on aesthetics and the role of form in
everyday life.
This is a collection of papers that will appeal to anyone
interested in human experience and subjectivity.
This book examines the tension, caused by the conflict between
poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic relationship. It
emphasizes positive contributions to growth of self made by
seemingly pathological or disruptive movements within the therapy
situation.
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off
Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional
pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render,
learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation
that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.
Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom's Animate, Animate
Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality
2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures
that are common across all three programs while "Advanced
Techniques" boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony
features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the
three main Toon Boom products.
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
The biography of Donald Winnicott, a child psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst who spent nearly all of his professional life at
Paddington Green Children's Hospital, London. His work and writing
about children has been increasingly regarded as an influential
contribution to psychoanalysis.
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam
Phillips, Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst. We all have two
lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is
the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can
trouble and even haunt us. In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst
Adam Phillips delves into the gap between who we are and who we are
not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the
unlikely key to the fully lived life. With his trademark
combination of open-minded enquiry and exhilarating argument,
drawing primarily on the twin worlds of literature and
psychoanalysis, Phillips will delight readers old and new in this
much-anticipated book.
'A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the
closest they can get.' All the present controversies about the
family are really discussions about monogamy. About what keeps
people together and why they should stay together. Now, in a book
of 121 aphorisms, Adam Phillips asks why we all believe in
monogamy, and why we find it so difficult to think about. Everyone
knows that most people, however much they may love their partner,
are capable of loving and desiring more than one person at a time.
It may be reassuring, but it is in fact very demanding -- and often
cruel -- to assume that only one person can give us what we want.
At least in sexual matters, sharing seems to go deeply against the
grain. Monogamy is so much taken for granted as the foundation of
the family and of family values that, as with anything that seems
essential, we are very wary of being critical of it. But, as Adam
Phillips suggests, it is surely worth wondering why the faithful
couple has such a hold on our imagination, and how it has come to
be such an ideal.
A collection of exceptional papers by Michael Eigen, selected and
assembled by Adam Phillips, that represent 20 years of writing and
30 years of work. The papers examine the tension, caused by the
conflict between poise and catastrophe, in the therapeutic
relationship. This volume contains a thought-provoking introduction
from Adam Phillips and includes introductory notes for the chapters
and a detailed Afterword by Michael Eigen."Eigen is one of the
dozen or so most interesting psychoanalysts writing today. "The
Electrified Tightrope" presents him in his familiar function as
scholar-healer; his speciality: the construction and reconstruction
of the breathing, seeing, moving, electric, and, yes, electrifying
self. For the mental health practitioner, what Eigen presents are a
hundred points of entry. What may seem in our work dim, dismal,
even worrisomely "disruptive moments" are show by him to be
"necessary steps" in the "profound process by ego repair or
formation." Writing from a base that includes institutional and
clinical care as well as the private practice, he has much to say
to workers everywhere: And how he writes Don't miss his Afterword
or Adam Phillips' elegantly attuned introduction." -- Harold N.
Boris"Michael Eigen's writings on psychoanalysis represent a unique
clinical and theoretical contribution. Of the many psychoanalysts
writing today, Eigen is one of the few who have captured in writing
the emotional intensity of the analyst's encounter with himself as
well as his patients. Not content to coast on the surface provided
by a professional language, Eigen pushes psychoanalytic theory into
the vortex of lived experience of anxiety and pain, but also hope.
Even as he is enveloping his radical devotion to phenomenological
reality in the Winnicottian tradition, Eigen refuses to throw out
Freudian theory as he writes, "We do not know what to do with this
multiplicity, but we are not free to evade it." Even when he is the
theoretical virtuoso, he offers the reader a sense of one mind
working to fathom another mind. And even as he conveys the struggle
of analyst and patient to overcome the deadness of not feeling, he
offers no facile rhetoric of authenticity, no sense of having the
answer. It is hard to imagine any clinician or scholar who will not
be moved by Eigen's writing to feel and understand the
psychoanalytic project afresh." -- Jessica Benjamin( Previously
published 1993 by Jason Aronson Inc)"
Some friends of ED books concentrate on more serious aspects of
Flash - this one concentrates on the fun. Flash can be used for
many purposes, but making visually stunning effects to impress your
boss, your friends, and anyone who looks at your site is one of the
most rewarding. friends of ED have scoured the web and the Flash
community, discovering the most requested and popular Flash effects
in action today. We have investigated the visual effects and actual
design techniques that Flash beginners have been asking for. The
visual inspiration and detailed explanations of how to recreate
these effects are combined together in this book. The eight leading
designers in this full color book take these effects apart, showing
you how to adapt your basic Flash knowledge to achieve results
exceeding anything you thought possible. The effects stay true to
the tried and tested friends of ED design-centric approach, with
full exercises and explanations for each effect. Topics include:
ground-breaking site navigation; a dynamic MP3 jukebox; cartoon
animation; and Flash math visual effects. All you need to use this
book is a knowledge of the Flash MX interface, and some
imagination. So sit back, relax, and open up your mind to the
visual potential of Flash MX. As with all books from friends of ED
our support is fast, friendly and free. Your queries will be passed
onto the editors and authors who put the book together.
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On Kindness (Paperback)
Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor
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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.
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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
This book contains two brilliant essays by one of the foremost
thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. In the first essay, 'The
Magic of Winnicott,' Adam Phillips makes clear the subtlety and
wisdom of Winnicott's concept of play. In 'The Cure for
Psychoanalysis' he works through psychoanalytic theories about cure
and instructs us to take most seriously those that free the analyst
and patient to wonder and to take pleasure in the unknowable
adventure ahead of them. These two thought-provoking writings frame
a discussion between the author and Edward Corrigan, analyst and
friend, which offers an intimate portrait of two analysts in
conversation, thoughtfully reflecting on traditions that inform
Phillips' practice and prolific works. This record of 'A Day with
Adam Phillips' at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy in
New York includes questions and commentaries which demonstrate the
creative and open expression encouraged by and reflected in the
practice of psychoanalysis itself.
Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of
being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods - and the
pleasures of uncertainty. These buoyant essays promote a
psychoanalysis with a light touch, a psychoanalysis for pleasure
and curiosity. 'In On Flirtation, he has again deployed all his
erudition and perception to beguiling effect . . . Adam Phillips
may well be one of our greatest contemporary psychoanalytic
thinkers.' Independent on Sunday
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. Published in
association with the Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that
we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we
want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want,
of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we
have already experienced. (We write the sentences we write because
of the sentences we have read.) How can we talk differently about
how we might want to change, knowing that all change precipitates
us into an uncertain future? In this companion book to On Wanting
to Change, Adam Phillips explores how we might get better at
talking about what it is to get better.
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