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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. |
Abstract:
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 children's minds? Should we be happy, or is there something better we can be? This book addresses various concerns, centred around the idea of balance.
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