by Adam Phillips (Author)
This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 0571209734
ISBN 13: 9780571209736
Book Overview: In Promises, Promises, Adam Phillips proves once again his virtuoso talent for working profound insights around psychoanalytic theory and literature in to entertaining, accessible essays on being alive in our time.