Adam Phillips
1) On giving up
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) volume 367
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The book of evidence: Freddie Montgomery is an aimless, eccentric, and highly cultured man whose arrest for the murder of a servant girl prompts him to offer the reader an extended testimony of the circumstances that led to and (in his chillingly amoral mind) justified his grisly crime. The sea: Follows retired art historian Max Morden to the seaside town where he spent his childhood summers. Max is grieving the loss of his wife, Anna, but returning...