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Darwin's Worms: On Life Stories and Death Stories

by Adam Phillips

2021-01-07 12:46:23

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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 detai... Read more
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.
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File size8 X 5.31 X 0.41 in
Print pages160
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date February 7, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465056767
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Adam Phillips
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Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.Adam Phillips was formerly Child Psychotherap...

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