Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely endure, tolerate, or make the most of.
Mature ... Phillips’s anti-authoritarian tendencies motivate him to rescue the idea of resistance ... Itself a sort of dream work, which synthesizes opposing elements into a poetic, if wishful, whole.
Concise, erudite, but frequently dense ... Though it's likely to be a challenging undertaking, anyone interested in taking a deep dive into theories of the unconscious and its impact on how we live our lives will find it intriguing and may be inspired to go further in their own investigation.
