On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
Tickle a child, and she peals with laughter. Go on too long, and her laughter is sure to turn to tears. Where is that ticklish line between pleasure and pain? Why do we risk its being crossed? Does psychoanalysis possess the language to talk about such an extraordinary ordinary thing? In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up this subject and others largely overlooked by psychoanalysis - kissing, worrying, risk, solitude, and composure. He writes about phobias as a kind of theory, a form of protection against curiosity; about analysis as a patient's way of reconstituting solitude; about good-enough mothering as the ant…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-26622-7
- EAN: 9780571266227
- Produktnummer: 20704010
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 297 KB
- Auflage: Main
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