Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and LiteratureBasic Books, 16. 6. 2009 - Počet stran: 400 As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings these two gifts to bear upon each other, speculating on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature and on the connections between them. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. Promises, Promises reveals Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse, into art, novels, poetry, and history. This collection gives us insights into Martin Amis's Night Train, Nijinsky's diary, Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, Amy Clampitt, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, and a case history of clutter. It confirms Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of the Guardian, "hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight." |
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Bombs Away | 35 |
A Case History | 59 |
Winnicotts Hamlet | 72 |
The Sexual Liberation of Fritz Wittels | 92 |
The Manicuring of Jacques Lacan | 107 |
Pessoas Appearances | 113 |
On Translating a Person | 125 |
Frederick Seidels New Poetry | 238 |
Coming to Grief | 257 |
Editing Housman | 268 |
On Eating and Preferring Not To | 282 |
The Pragmatics of Passion | 296 |
Farbers Quibble | 310 |
Prynne Collected | 322 |
Christopher Hills Revolution and Me | 326 |
Appreciating Pater | 148 |
Minding Out | 161 |
An Answer to Questions | 174 |
Smile | 181 |
Martin Amis and the Female Policeman | 188 |
Narcissism For and Against | 200 |
Roaring Boy | 226 |
Sameness is All | 334 |
Nijinskys New Diary | 342 |
Doing Heads | 358 |
Promises Promises | 364 |
Acknowledgements | 376 |
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