Side Effects - Softcover

Adam Phillips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141012501 ISBN 13: 9780141012506

Publisher: Viking, 2007

Synopsis

Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives. Phillips also intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life's down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves. Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Adam Phillips, formerly Principle Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

Review:

This collection proves [Phillips’s] mastery of the literary essay. (The Times (London))

“These essays...are vintage Phillips: enlightening and intelligent; dynamic and delectably interdisciplinary.” (Time Out)

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141012501
• ISBN 13: 9780141012506
• Binding: Paperback