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Item Details
| Title:
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DARWIN'S WORMS
ON LIFE STORIES AND DEATH STORIES |
| By: |
Adam Phillips |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0465056768 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780465056767 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
17 January, 2001 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. This book uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings - suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. |
| Synopsis: |
Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new book, Darwin's Worms, uses the biographical details of Darwin's and Freud's lives to examine endings-suffering, mortality, extinction, and death. Both Freud and Darwin were interested in how destruction conserves life. They took their inspiration from fossils or from half-remembered dreams. Each told a story that has altered our perception of our lives. For Darwin, Phillips explains, "the story to tell was how species can drift towards extinction; for Freud, the story was how the individual tended to, and tended towards his own death." In each case, it is a death story that uniquely illuminates the life story. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Basic Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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