Equals

Equals

by Adam Phillips (Author)

Synopsis

We would all like to think of ourselves as freedom-loving, egalitarian and democratic. Yet Freud has taught us that everything we do and say is rich in ambiguity and ambivalence: we are riven by conflict and antagonism, within and without. But if it is true that our inner lives are one unflagging drama of desire and dependence, of greed, rivalry and abjection, then how can we ever presume to know what might be good for someone else? In these essays, the author of Darwin's Worms , The Beast in the Nursery and Houdini's Box examines such topics as our fantasies of freedom, the nature of inhibition, and the social role of mockery. Throughout, he demonstrates how psychoanalysis allows people to speak and be heard.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 08 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 057120970X
ISBN 13: 9780571209705

Author Bio
Adam Phillips was formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital in London. He is the author of, most recently, Darwin's Worms, Promises, Promises, Equals and Houdini's Box, and he is the Series Editor of the new Penguin Freud translations.