Terrors and Experts

Terrors and Experts

by Adam Phillips (Author)

Synopsis

In the style of his earlier books, On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On Flirtation , the author discusses ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and the idea of expertise itself. He challenges the conventional idea of the self as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution. By examining our wish to believe things - and people (including psychoanalysts) - the book offers a revision of psychoanalysis itself. For to take psychoanalysis seriously, Phillips suggests, is to be unable to take gurus seriously.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 01 Mar 1996

ISBN 10: 057117583X
ISBN 13: 9780571175833