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Unforbidden Pleasures

By: Adam Phillips

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Paperback | 9 May 2017

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Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures?

Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author ofMissing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first parents," Adam and Eve, to the work of the great psychoanalytic thinkers.

Forbidden pleasures, he argues, are the ones we tend to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from unforbidden pleasures than from those that are taboo. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us. An ambitious book that speaks to the precariousness of modern life,Unforbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological, and social dynamics that govern human desire and shape our everyday reality.

Industry Reviews

"Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer."--The New Yorker

"The most interestingly subversive meditation on modern life I have read for many years. . . . A book that can be read again and again."--New Statesman (Books of the Year: The Essential NS Reading List)

"Reading Adam Phillips on the ways in which we think, act, and behave is among the most . . . enlivening things I can think of."--Interview magazine

"A dense, challenging, provocative meditation on morality and identity."--Kirkus Reviews

"Phillips is . . . a bit like an Oliver Sacks of psychoanalysis, both affable and unalarmed."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"Phillips gives an illuminating account."--The Times Literary Supplement

"[Phillips] writes playfully and suggestively on a topic that tends to get written about in the most unliterary of languages. This attractive quality in his work--its inviting (and mildly paradoxical) combination of the provocative and the ambivalent--is evident from the very beginning of his new collection, Unforbidden Pleasures."--New York Times Book Review

"This slim volume is rich in psychological, philosophical, and literary insight."--Publishers Weekly

"Curiously addictive."--The Millions

"It is a real pleasure to glide through philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis with Adam Phillips. Through his fine essays, one finds oneself paying attention to things that repay reflection without demanding allegiance to a new set of principles."--The Washington Post

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