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Attention Seeking
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  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241986721
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99
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Attention Seeking

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A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention, from Britain's pre-eminent psychoanalyst

'Everything depends on what, if anything, we find interesting: on what we are encouraged and educated to find interesting, and what we find ourselves being interested in despite ourselves. There is our official curiosity and our unofficial curiosity (and psychoanalysis is a story about the relationship between the two) . . .'

Based on three connected talks on the subject of attention, this pocket-sized book from Adam Phillips is a fascinating and memorable introduction to the nature and the uses of our attention.
  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241986721
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently The Life You Want, On Giving Up and On Getting Better. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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