Hands by Darian Leader
How much do you really know about your own hands? Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient servants that they seem to be. Through conscious and unconscious gesture, they reveal our deepest psychology, our weaknesses and obsessions, our personal history and our social conditioning. Why do zombies walk with their hands outstretched? How does a new-born baby 'talk' with his hands? What is the connection between prayer beads, snuff boxes and cell phones? And most importantly, can we unlock the mystery of our hands in order to truly know ourselves? The key to understanding everything around you - and everything within you - is staring you in the face. Take a journey through fascinating anecdotes and brilliant psychoanalytic research, through a legacy of ideas from da Vinci to Dickens to Die Hard. With wit and dexterity, Darian Leader reveals that there's much more to your hands than meets the eye.
Publisher's descriptionWhy do we play with our fingers when nervous? Why do zombies walk with their hands out? What connects prayer beads with iPhones? Journey down the psychoanalytic rabbit hole to discover the strange and fascinating secrets of what our hands really say about us... * Penguin *
A breezy cultural history of fidgeting * Times Literary Supplement *
Leader is a psychoanalyst with a sideline in smart, elegant books that explain ourselves to ourselves without using the jargon of clinical literature * Guardian *
An intriguing meditation on how vital our hands are to our understanding of ourselves and our world * The Times *
A breezy cultural history of fidgeting * Times Literary Supplement *
Leader is a psychoanalyst with a sideline in smart, elegant books that explain ourselves to ourselves without using the jargon of clinical literature * Guardian *
An intriguing meditation on how vital our hands are to our understanding of ourselves and our world * The Times *
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. His books include The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, Strictly Biplolar, What is Madness? , and Why Cant We Sleep?
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241974001 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241974003 |
| Title | Hands |
| Author | Darian Leader |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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