Side Effects

By: Adam Phillips

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Paperback | 24 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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A dazzling collection of essays from our most brilliant psychoanalyst

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.

Industry Reviews

The best living essayist writing in English
He's brilliant
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But 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 *

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