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Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips 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.
Phillips also intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life’s down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves.
Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.
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Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of ten previous books including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, On Flirtation and, most recently, Going Sane. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books, the Observer and the New York Times, and is General Editor of the new Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations.
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There is a nasty, perhaps Freudian, moment in Ford Madox Ford's novel of 1924, Some Do Not, in which something suddenly occurs to the hero, Tietjens, in the middle of a conversation: 'Suddenly he thought that he didn't know for certain that he was the father of his child, and he groaned . . .' Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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There is a nasty, perhaps Freudian, moment in Ford Madox Ford's novel of 1924, Some Do Not, in which something suddenly occurs to the hero, Tietjens, in the middle of a conversation: 'Suddenly he thought that he didn't know for certain that he was the father of his child, and he groaned . . .' Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Side Effects
Side Effects offers an excellent and stimulating discussion on the nuances and complexities of psychotherapy. The author promotes reflextivity and conversations on being within the dyadic context. I found that Side Effects provides a simple and clearly laid out discussion on many of the unknowns or mysteries of psychotherapy that indeed may remain just so.
Side Effects offers an excellent and stimulating discussion on the nuances and complexities of psychotherapy. The author promotes reflextivity and conversations on being within the dyadic context. I found that Side Effects provides a simple and clearly laid out discussion on many of the unknowns or mysteries of psychotherapy that indeed may remain just so.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A great book by a great author, at once highly informative and deeply pleasurable
13 Dec 2007
Format:Paperback
Adam Phillips is a favorite author of mine, a wonderful essayist and prose stylist. His writing expresses clarity in the face of obscurity, precision in confronting ambiguity and complexity. If you have any interest in Freud and psychoanalysis generally, or if you wonder about patterns and tendencies, both in yourself and in the culture, which you intimate but can't quite pinpoint or articulate, then I definitely recommend his work. "Side Effects" is very good, but I think his best may be "On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored" - a truly beautiful book.
6 of 54 people found the following review helpful
of course analysts are attracted to literary texts
6 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
adam phillips leaves out the number one reason psychoanalysts are attracted to literature: you don't have to know the person to theorize about her. it's so much easier to analyze someone you've never met,and the characters she made up, than it is to approach the clinical setting where a real relationship is involved. it seems to me that the reason analysts and others are interested in analyzing famous people they've never met, never talked to or had any relationship with, is it's so, so easy. you can say anything you want and jane austen isn't here to say "huh? where'd you ever get that idea about me?"
in a real analysis that type of response from the patient is common. the analyst has to know how to respond back. in literary analysis hey, there's no one around you have to relate to. you can basically say anything you want and the more clever you are the farther away from the subject you can get. that is, you can escape into your pretty words and no one will ever say, hold on, whatever happened to your subject? aren't you talking about adam?
in a real analysis that type of response from the patient is common. the analyst has to know how to respond back. in literary analysis hey, there's no one around you have to relate to. you can basically say anything you want and the more clever you are the farther away from the subject you can get. that is, you can escape into your pretty words and no one will ever say, hold on, whatever happened to your subject? aren't you talking about adam?
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