On Wanting to Change
Author(s): Adam Phillips
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.
We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.
We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.
So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . .
This sparkling book is about that fact.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin (General UK)
- : 92.0
- : 31 May 2021
- : .9 Centimeters X 11.1 Centimeters X 18.1 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Adam Phillips
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 160
- : VSP