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Monogamy
Adam Phillips manages to unsettle one of our most dearly held ideals, that of the monogamous couple, by speculating upon the impulses that most threaten it--boredom, desire, and the tempting idea that erotic fulfillment might lie elsewhere. With 121 brilliant aphorisms, the witty, erudite psychoanalyst who gave us On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored distills the urgent questions and knotty paradoxes behind our mating impulse, and reveals the centrality of monogamy to our notions of marriage, family, the self--in fact, to everything that matters.
The only truly monogamous relationship is the one we have with ourselves.
Every marriage is a blind date that makes you wonder what the alternatives are to a blind date.
There's nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Mar 30th, 1999
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.80in - 5.46in - 0.39in - 0.43lb
- EAN: 9780679776178
- Categories: • Marriage & Long Term Relationships• Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)
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What people are saying
temporarily restricted due to unusual activity since 2/15/23, writes from @gpl_writes
“People have relationships not because they want to feel safe—though they often think they do—but because they want to find out what the danger is.” — Adam Phillips, Monogamy https://t.co/5jAaB67ztI
novel: Hawk Mountain (Norton) "a dark bleak adrenaline rush" - Clive Barker • PEN/Faulkner Longlisted 2022 • podcast: Against Everyone With Conner Habib
@PollyHogleg Monogamy by Adam Phillips is a good one. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite looks long but reads quickly since there’s a lot of blank space on the pages. Kids books/Y/A are great
Praise for this book
"Adam Phillips writes with far-sighted equanimity. . . . In this regard, he's a little like an Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis, both affable and unalarmed." --The Boston Globe
"Phillips's reflections on monogamy are both discomforting and comforting." --The Washington Post Book World
"Playful, brilliant . . . profound . . . keeps us faithful to the last page."--The New York Observer
What people are saying
temporarily restricted due to unusual activity since 2/15/23, writes from @gpl_writes
“People have relationships not because they want to feel safe—though they often think they do—but because they want to find out what the danger is.” — Adam Phillips, Monogamy https://t.co/5jAaB67ztI
novel: Hawk Mountain (Norton) "a dark bleak adrenaline rush" - Clive Barker • PEN/Faulkner Longlisted 2022 • podcast: Against Everyone With Conner Habib
@PollyHogleg Monogamy by Adam Phillips is a good one. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite looks long but reads quickly since there’s a lot of blank space on the pages. Kids books/Y/A are great