Attention Seeking
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2019
112 pages
978-0-241-98673-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two)...'
Based on three connected talks on the subject of attention, this pocket-sized book from Adam Phillips is a fascinating and memorable introduction to idea and the uses of our attention.
Based on three connected talks on the subject of attention, this pocket-sized book from Adam Phillips is a fascinating and memorable introduction to idea and the uses of our attention.
Reviews / Votes
The best living essayist writing in English The Martin Amis of British psychoanalysis . . . brilliantly amusing and often highly unsettling * The Times * One of those writers whom it is a pleasure simply to hear think * Sunday Telegraph * Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored * Observer * Adam Phillips is that rarest of phenomena, a trained clinician who is also a sublime writer Playfully digressive style... He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis * Daily Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
File size
0,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-241-98673-8 (9780241986738)
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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 On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
