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On Giving Up
What Must We Give Up to Feel More Alive?
Buch von Adam Phillips
Sprache: Englisch

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'A wise, generous book' Washington Post

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?

'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

'A wise, generous book' Washington Post

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?

'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

Über den Autor
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241656594
ISBN-10: 0241656591
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Phillips, Adam
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 222 x 138 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Adam Phillips
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2024
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 126874512
Über den Autor
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: 240 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241656594
ISBN-10: 0241656591
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Phillips, Adam
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 222 x 138 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Adam Phillips
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2024
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
Artikel-ID: 126874512
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