Full name: On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life

Author: Adam Phillips Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Essays, Philosophy, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780674634633 0674634632

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated by psychoanalysis--kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, composure, even farting as it relates to worrying. He argues that psychoanalysis began as a virtuoso improvisation within the science of medicine, but that virtuosity has given way to the dream of science that only the examined life is worth living. Phillips goes on to show how the drive to omniscience has been unfortunate both for psychoanalysis and for life. He reveals how much one's psychic health depends on establishing a realm of life that successfully resists examination. Similar books: The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense by Anna Freud Three Case Histories by Sigmund Freud The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud Our Inner Conflicts by Karen Horney Self-Analysis by Karen Horney Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud Freud and Man's Soul by Bruno Bettelheim Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Psychoanalysis by Janet Malcolm Character Analysis by Wilhelm Reich The Beast in the Nursery by Adam Phillips Missing Out by Adam Phillips Terrors and Experts by Adam Phillips Houdini's Box by Adam Phillips A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz