Unforbidden Pleasures

The most interestingly subversive meditation on modern life I have read for many years… Phillips ranges over a wide field, including reflections on Hamlet and the tyrannical power of conscience. Elegant, forceful and rich in insight, this is a book that can be read again and again * New Statesman - Books of the Year 2015 *The best living essayist writing in English[A] playfully digressive style… He is the finest living decipherer of affective life [and] the Bob Dylan of psychoanalysis * Daily Telegraph *There is a lot of philosophy and psychoanalysis packed into these 200 pages * Radar *Adam Phillips is single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world’s best essayists * Observer *He’s brilliantPhillips radiates infectious charm * Sunday Times *Publisher’s description. Adam Phillips elegantly unfolds the concept of the ‘unforbidden’, from the Old Testament to Freud and beyond, exploring the philosophical, psychological and social complexities that govern human desire and shape our reality. * Penguin *

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Giving Up, On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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