Side Effects by Adam Phillips
Side effects are things we do not intend. This collection of essays examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives.
The best living essayist writing in English
He's brilliant
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzledBut the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
Though Phillips's territory is complication, he reports back from his travels in the simplest of words. He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists
Phillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *
Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail. * Guardian *
He's brilliant
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzledBut the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer *
Though Phillips's territory is complication, he reports back from his travels in the simplest of words. He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists
Phillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *
Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail. * Guardian *
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising 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 most recently The Life You Want, On Giving Up and On Getting Better. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141012506 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141012501 |
| Title | Side Effects |
| Author | Adam Phillips |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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