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From the author of Missing Out and On Kindness, Britain''s pre-eminent psychoanalyst 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.


Side effects are things we do not intend. Phillips 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.

Side Effects

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    A Paperback by Adam Phillips

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 7/26/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780141012506
      978-0141012506
      ISBN-10 0141012501
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      Cognition and cognitive psychology Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

      Description

      From the author of Missing Out and On Kindness, Britain''s pre-eminent psychoanalyst 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.


      Side effects are things we do not intend. Phillips 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.

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