Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life - Rilegato

Phillips, Adam

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0374281114 ISBN 13: 9780374281113

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2013

Riassunto

A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach us 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 inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires. We become haunted by the myth of our own potential, of what we have in ourselves to be or to do. And this can make of our lives a perpetual falling-short.
But what happens if we remove the idea of failure from the equation? With his flair for graceful paradox, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips suggests that if we accept frustration as a way of outlining what we really want, satisfaction suddenly becomes possible. To crave a life without frustration is to crave a life without the potential to identify and accomplish our desires.
In this elegant, compassionate, and absorbing book, Phillips draws deeply on his own clinical experience as well as on the works of Shakespeare and Freud, of D. W. Winnicott and William James, to suggest that frustration, not getting it, and and getting away with it are all chapters in our unlived lives--and may be essential to the one fully lived.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of many books, includingOn Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored; Going Sane; Side Effects; andOn Balance. He is also the coauthor, with the historian Barbara Taylor, ofOn Kindness; with the critic Leo Bersani, of Intimacies; and with the exhibition-maker Judith Clark, ofThe Concise Dictionary of Dress.

Product Description:

With his flair for graceful paradox, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Phillips suggests that if people accept frustration as a way of outlining what they really want, satisfaction suddenly becomes possible. To crave a life without frustration is to crave a life without the potential to identify and accomplish our desires.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0374281114
• ISBN 13: 9780374281113
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 203