Equals

by Adam Phillips

2020-12-31 22:30:51

Written in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Adam Phillips''s probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive au... Read more
Written in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Adam Phillips''s probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive authority. He explores why citizens in a democracy are so eager to establish levels of hierarchy when the system is based on the assumption that every man is created equal. And he ponders the importance of mockery in group behavior, and the psyche''s struggle as a metaphor for political conflict.
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File size8.25 X 4.88 X 0.65 in
Print pages224
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date July 8, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465056804
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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