In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not, to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived life.
Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects, On Kindness, co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance, Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud. Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times, and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His new book, Unforbidden Pleasures, comes out in November 2015 and is published by Hamish Hamilton.
The best living essayist writing in English
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one
thing you will never be is bored
*Observer*
He's brilliant
Phillips radiates infectious charm
*Sunday Times*
Playfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer of
affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis
*Daily Telegraph*
'Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you
to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find
you were holding it by the tail.
*The Guardian*
Phillips is a wonderful writer, his prose limpid and exact
*Sunday Times*
His prose is always elegant... such lively intelligence wins over
the reader and makes Phillips's work addictive
Praise for Adam Phillips
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Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one
thing you will never be is bored
*Observer*
Phillips radiates infectious charm
*Sunday Times*
His writing is a lively source of provocation, repetition,
self-renewal
*Scotsman*
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