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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 801.92 EAN: 9780007155385 ISBN: 0007155387 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: May 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: April 24, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A great book by a great author, at once highly informative and deeply pleasurableAdam Phillips is a favorite author of mine, a wonderful essayist and prose stylist. His writing expresses clarity in the face of obscurity, precision in confronting ambiguity and complexity. If you have any interest in Freud and psychoanalysis generally, or if you wonder about patterns and tendencies, both in yourself and in the culture, which you intimate but can't quite pinpoint or articulate, then I definitely recommend his work. "Side Effects" is very good, but I think his best may be "On ... Read More Rating:  - of course analysts are attracted to literary textsadam phillips leaves out the number one reason psychoanalysts are attracted to literature: you don't have to know the person to theorize about her. it's so much easier to analyze someone you've never met,and the characters she made up, than it is to approach the clinical setting where a real relationship is involved. it seems to me that the reason analysts and others are interested in analyzing famous people they've never met, never talked to or had any relationship with, is it's so, so easy. ... Read More 
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