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On Giving Up (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250371829)
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xFrom acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable. There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment--an attempt to make a different future. In On Giving Up, the acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up and helps us to address the central question: What must we give up in order to feel more alive?Author: Adam Phillips
ISBN-10: 1250371821
ISBN-13: 9781250371829
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By Adam Phillips
xAdam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures, and Missing Out. He is the general editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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