The Life You Want

<From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on how to achieve the lives we want

Where do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually getting them?

In
Through a series of interlinked essays, Phillips explores the difficulties we have around the whole idea of enjoying - and fashioning - our lives in cultures that insistently promote enjoyment while making it very difficult for so many people. Exploring the personal and political overlap in the issue of our lives,
''One of the finest prose stylists in the language, an Emerson of our time'' John Banville<>

Product details

• Authors: Adam Phillips, Phillips Adam
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9780241766118
• ISBN: 978-0-241-76611-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, SELF-HELP / Self-Management / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Self-help & personal development, Popular psychology, Popular philosophy, Health psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Coping with / advice about addiction, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis