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- Published: 18 March 2021
- ISBN: 9780241993859
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
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On Wanting to Change
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- Published: 18 March 2021
- ISBN: 9780241993859
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $18.99
One moment, the ideas are clear and thrilling; the next, multi-clause, ludic sentences snare the reader in a web of complexity . . . [Phillips] draws nimbly on a wide hinterland of authors - from the poetry of Wallace Stevens to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, from Howard's End to Moby Dick
Tablet
Phillips at his most brilliant
Financial Times
An inspiring vision of psychoanalysis
Guardian
A mediation on the powerful fantasy of change
Times Literary Supplement
A response to the times we live in . . . an urgent invitation for a different kind of conversation
Prospect
His style of psychoanalytic writing refreshingly lacks the usual heaviness and homage to the master
Inside Story