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The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites
In four interrelated essays, Adam Phillips arrives at startling new insights into issues that preoccupied Freud, showing in the process that far from having lost its relevance, psychoanalysis is still one of our most incisive tools for the exploration of the human psyche and its possibilities. Phillips transforms the genre of the essay into an instrument for intellectual investigation of the most absorbing kind.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Mar 30th, 1999
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.03in - 5.21in - 0.67in - 0.46lb
- EAN: 9780375700477
- Categories: • Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis• Research & Methodology
About the Author
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What people are saying
temporarily restricted due to unusual activity since 2/15/23, writes from @gpl_writes
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.” ― Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites https://t.co/6jt79bNlMZ
editor/writer | PhD from @GoldsmithsUoL | books, poetry, cities, forests, creativity | ‘The longer you look at a thing / the more it transforms’ — Anne Michaels
‘the child leaves more than one home - something she will do every time she speaks, which is always out of her own previous silence. That noisy silence, before language joined in, is a lengthy part of her own history.’ Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery
Praise for this book
"Elegantly contentious. . . . There is no one writing better than [Phillips] about desire in all of its complexity, with all of its dark secrets and dark possbility, its necessity and compulsion and satiability. The Beast in the Nursery is a difficult, cerebral and beautiful book." --New York Observer
"[Phillips is] a writer with a unique voice, a gadfly permissive to his own curiosity. His stylistic feints startle us into sympathy with the unexpected." --The Washington Post
"[The] Oliver Sacks of Psychoanalysis. . . . Adam Phillips writes with far-sighted equanimity. " --The Boston Globe
What people are saying
temporarily restricted due to unusual activity since 2/15/23, writes from @gpl_writes
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.” ― Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites https://t.co/6jt79bNlMZ
editor/writer | PhD from @GoldsmithsUoL | books, poetry, cities, forests, creativity | ‘The longer you look at a thing / the more it transforms’ — Anne Michaels
‘the child leaves more than one home - something she will do every time she speaks, which is always out of her own previous silence. That noisy silence, before language joined in, is a lengthy part of her own history.’ Adam Phillips, The Beast in the Nursery