Unforbidden pleasures
Phillips, Adam, 1954-2016
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Adam 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 20th-century psychoanalytic thinkers. Unforbidden pleasures, he argues, are always the ones we tend not to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from them. Furthermore, we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us.
Main title:
Unforbidden pleasures / Adam Phillips.
Author:
Phillips, Adam, 1954-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2016.
Collation:
197 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2015.
ISBN:
9780241964088 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2221209