Promises, Promises
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Promises, Promises

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Promises, Promises

About this book

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, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's 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.'

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2016
Topic
Psychology
eBook ISBN
9780571266326
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Praise
  4. Title Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Poetry and Psychoanalysis
  10. 2 Bombs Away
  11. 3 Clutter: A Case History
  12. 4 Winnicott’s Hamlet
  13. 5 The Sexual Liberation of Fritz Wittels
  14. 6 The Manicuring of Jacques Lacan
  15. 7 Pessoa’s Appearances
  16. 8 On Translating a Person
  17. 9 Appreciating Pater
  18. 10 Minding Out
  19. 11 An Answer to Questions
  20. 12 Smile
  21. 13 Martin Amis and the Female Policeman
  22. 14 Narcissism, For and Against
  23. 15 Roaring Boy
  24. 16 Frederick Seidel’s New Poetry
  25. 17 Coming to Grief
  26. 18 Editing Housman
  27. 19 On Eating, and Preferring Not To
  28. 20 The Pragmatics of Passion
  29. 21 Farber’s Quibble
  30. 22 Prynne Collected
  31. 23 Christopher Hill’s Revolution and Me
  32. 24 Sameness is All
  33. 25 Nijinsky’s New Diary
  34. 26 Jokes Apart
  35. 27 Doing Heads
  36. 28 Promises, Promises
  37. Acknowledgements
  38. About the Author
  39. Also by the Author
  40. Copyright

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