Adam Phillips

Ensayo filosófico y psicoanalítico que reflexiona sobre la renuncia como acto de lucidez y libertad, explorando lo que dejamos ir para vivir mejor.

A pesar de no haber fundado una escuela propia, el trabajo de D. W. Winnicott es considerado como una de las contribuciones más importantes al psicoanálisis después de Freud. Con más de cuarenta años de practica clinica y habiendo sido el primer pediatra britanico que se formo como psicoanalista, aporto experiencia e intuicion sin precedentes a la relativamente nueva disciplina del psicoanalisis de adultos y de niños. Su enfoque particular respecto del psicoanalisis se combina con la voluntad de acercar su trabajo al publico no especializado. Al igual que Freud y Lacan, utilizaba un estilo caracteristico, tanto en su labor clinica como en su tarea de escritor. Basado en la lectura detallada de los trabajos mas importantes de WINNICOTT, ADAM PHILLIPS señala su creciente interes en la relacion madre-hijo y en el proceso evolutivo; y sobre todo, su revision radical, aunque con frecuencia polemica, de los trabajos de Freud y Melanie Klein. En esta introduccion, que constituye una vision en ocasiones criticas de su obra, Winnicott ocupa su lugar, junto con Klein y con Lacan, como uno de los pocos grandes innovadores dentro de la tradicion psicoanalitica.

"In ogni coppia ci sono due cospiratori in cerca di un crimine. Spesso la sua migliore approssimazione e il sesso". L''autore ha affrontato in questo saggio il tema della coppia, rivoltandolo in modo da far vacillare i detentori di certezze. Quindi, a partire da alcune intuizioni non certo trascurabili, la sua indagine introduce in una "galleria di specchi" in cui nulla e quello che sembra.

A wise generous book Washington PostFrom 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 self sacrifice feels positive something to admire and aspire to while the other is profoundly unsettling if not actively undesirable There are always it turns out both good and bad sacrifices but it is not always clear beforehand which is which We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are In this sense giving up is a critical moment an attempt to make a different future In On Giving Up acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question what must we give up in order to feel more alive One of the finest prose stylists in the language an Emerson of our time John Banville The best living essayist writing in English John Gray

¿Por qué nos seduce tanto la idea de la huida, y sin embargo despreciamos a los que huyen? En este libro se investiga a cuatro artistas de la fuga: una niña que juega compulsivamente a una caprichosa version del juego del escondite; Harry Houdini, que electriza a su publico con escapes en los que se juega la vida; un hombre que piensa que su destino es huir siempre, ya sea de las mujeres o de su psicoanalista; y la poeta Emily Dickinson que encontro la libertad en la reclusion que ella misma se habia impuesto. Adam Phillips nos recuerda que a menudo nos sentimos mas vivos que nunca en el instante de la huida.

Una mirada deslumbrante a la curiosidad y la avidez infantiles: lo que las inspira, lo que las mata y cómo es posible mantenerlas. Crecer es un proceso de perdida de ilusiones, o esa al menos es la idea que tiene el saber al uso. Este libro muestra por que estamos tan ansiosos por aceptar este tranquilizador pero decepcionante mito, y ofrece un retrato del conflicto existente en todos nosotros entre el niño y el realista, entre la bestia y la guarderia.

Despues de haber dirigido los rayos de su iconoclasta inteligencia sobre las virtudes (y algunos de los vicios) del coqueteo, Adam Phillips se ocupa de la monogamia. Para el, que nació en 1954 y vivio la revolucion sexual de los sesenta y setenta, la monogamia y su figura en el espejo, la promiscuidad, no son buenas o malas, sino dos versiones de la utopia. Y de alguna manera, lo que esta en cuestion en los debates sobre la familia, el divorcio, o la crisis del matrimonio, es precisamente la monogamia, aunque las mas de las veces no se ose mencionarla. El autor, pues, procede por el camino inverso y, partiendo de la exigencia a menudo tan cruel de que una sola persona pueda darnos todo lo que queremos y de que nosotros podamos a su vez satisfacer todos sus deseos, reflexiona sobre el amor y el deseo, y los vinculos que se establecen en esa compleja relacion entre conspiradores que es una pareja, donde dos son siempre tres. Y en ocasiones, algunos mas.

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 self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable.There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment - an attempt to make a different future.In On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive?

Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going SaneAdam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our first parents Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinkers.Unforbidden pleasures, he argues, are always the ones we tend not to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from them. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us.Adam Phillips latest ambitious project explores the philosophical, psychological and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality.Praise for Adam Phillips:Britains foremost psychoanalytic writerThe New YorkerPhillips is one of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson for our time - John Banville Every mind-blowing book from Adam Phillips suspends all the certainties we are most attached to and somehow makes this feel exhilarating - Deborah Levy Phillips radiates infectious charm. The brew of gaiety, compassion, exuberance and idealism is heady and disarming - Sunday TimesThe best psychotherapist in Britain and one of our greatest contemporary psychoanalytic thinkersNew StatesmanBrilliantly amusing and often profoundly unsettling... [he is] the Martin Amis of British psychoanalysisThe Times

A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called Britains foremost psychoanalytic writerPhillipss prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is all its own John BanvilleIn the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as well as his own unique thinking. Investigating subjects as diverse as desire, family, happiness, tickling, forgetting and even boredom, Phillips proves himself to be not only one of our most engaging writers but also a fascinating and provocative guide to our obsessions as human beings.

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings these two gifts to bear upon each other, speculating on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature and on the connections between them. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. Promises, Promises reveals Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse, into art, novels, poetry, and history. This collection gives us insights into Martin Amiss Night Train, Nijinskys diary, Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, Amy Clampitt, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, and a case history of clutter. It confirms Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of the Guardian, "hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight."

Cet essai biographique sur Freud travaille avec lhostilité de Freud à légard de la biographie. Il suggère que la psychanalyse est une science immigrante, une science en déplacement, et du déplacement

"La Meilleure des vies – éloge de la vie non vécue est un livre sur les expériences que nous navons jamais eues et dont nous sommes en deuil. Chaque chapitre décrit une expérience de la vie ordinaire

"La Meilleure des vies – éloge de la vie non vécue est un livre sur les expériences que nous navons jamais eues et dont nous sommes en deuil. Chaque chapitre décrit une expérience de la vie ordinaire

"On reconnaît à l’enfant sa bonté naturelle, son désir de s’oublier lui-même, de se désintéresser de lui-même, de s’absorber dans autre chose. Et l’extraordinaire vitalité de son désir : à la fois so

Cet essai biographique sur Freud travaille avec lhostilité de Freud à légard de la biographie. Il suggère que la psychanalyse est une science immigrante, une science en déplacement, et du déplacement

From the UKs foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they dont always go, or come, together . . . This sparkling book is about that fact.

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It confirms Adam Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse into art, drama, poetry and history. This collection gives us insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinskys diary and Martin Amiss Night Train, and provides a case history of clutter. In a final essay, the author turns to the question - why sign up for analysis when you could read a book?Promoting everywhere a refreshing version of a psychoanalysis that is more committed to happiness and inspiration than to self-knowledge or some absolute truth, Promises, Promises reaffirms Adam Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of one reviewer, hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight.