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On kissing, tickling and being bored : psychoanalytic essays on the unexamined life / Adam Phillips.

By: Phillips, Adam.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 1993Description: xxi, 143 p. ; 21 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0571170226.Subject(s): Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 | Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971 | PsychoanalysisDDC classification: 616.8917

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In this collection of psychoanalytic essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects, the author evolves his own distinctive version of psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation. The essays combine literary and philosophical commentary with clinical vignettes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 On Tickling
  • 2 First Hates: Phobias in Theory
  • 3 On Risk and Solitude
  • 4 On Composure
  • 5 Worrying and Its Discontents
  • 6 Returning the Dream: In Memoriam Masud Khan
  • 7 On Being Bored
  • 8 Looking at Obstacles
  • 9 Plotting for Kisses
  • 10 Playing Mothers: Between Pedagogy and Transference
  • 11 Psychoanalysis and Idolatry
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Adam Phillips is the author of six previous books, including "The Beast in the Nursery" & "Monogamy" (both available form Vintage). Formerly the principal child psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London, he lives in England.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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