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Author: Adam Phillips
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Contains essays in which the author examines the contradictory aspects of a person's fears and desires, discussing examples from literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adam Phillips
ISBN: 9780374212575 0374212570 9780241143889 0241143888
OCLC Number: 559791828
Description: xvi, 314 pages ; 22 cm
Contents: Five short talks on excess. In excess ; Enough is enough ; Sex mad ; On being too much for ourselves ; Believe it or not --
On what is fundamental --
Sleeping it off --
Children behaving badly. Should school make you happy? ; Truancy now --
The authenticity issue --
Negative Capabilities. The horse ; The helpless ; The perfectionist ; The lost --
On getting away with it --
Forms of inattention. Arbus's freaks ; Celebrating Sebald ; Mendelsohn's histories ; Auden's magic --
Mothers and fairy tales. Jack and his beanstalk ; The least of her problems: Cinderalla and men --
Forsaken favorites.
Responsibility: Adam Phillips.

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When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the palace of wisdom? What is the role of the parent, the teacher and of psychoanalysis itself in the development of  Read more...

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