Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature

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Basic 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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Poetry and Psychoanalysis
1
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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Adam Phillips has been called "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, Phillips is the author of such works as Winnicott; On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Monogamy; On Flirtation; Terror and Experts; Darwin's Worms; Promises, Promises; and Houdini's Box.

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