Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips, the foremost psychoanalytic writer of our time, plays with ideas about the lives we want. Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do—and fail to do—about actually getting them? In The Life You Want, Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary...

A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach use about who we are All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an...

Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures? Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a promise so central to our existence that...

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of...

În viața de zi cu zi, trăim o multitudine de schimbări: ne mutăm într-o casă nouă, ne schimbăm jobul, trecem la o altă orientare religioasă sau politică, ni se adâncesc ridurile de pe față sau încărunțim, modul în care percepem schimbările se schimbă și tot așa.